Re: Firewall automation

[Jason Dixon <jason_(_at_)_dixongroup_(_dot_)_net>]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 10:11 PM, tai wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
> > You're identifying the entire OpenBSD user base with the flippant
> > comments of one user.  It's not that people don't appreciate the value
> > in these interfaces;  it's that the developers simply don't have the
> > need/motivation for creating them.  You really think Daniel or Henning
> > are sitting around wishing for a GUI to help them administer 1000
> > firewalls?  On the other hand, do you think anyone's stepped up to
> > sponsor the development of such an interface for $100K?
>
> 	Since he was following up to me, you must mean that my comments are
> flippant.  I have re-read it, and I do not understand how I was 
> flippant.
> I believe the original reply was more flippant, since it went something
> along the lines of "GUIs suck, learn to use command lines", and I 
> simply
> pointed out that there are situations where GUIs do not suck.

No, I was referring to Gerardo Santana's comments.


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