Some comic relief - freeware is not malware, but it is close according to Nominum

[bert hubert-2]

Hi everybody!

Sorry for being a bit silent over the past two weeks, have been very busy
with our newly born son Guus! Mother and son are doing really well.

In the meantime, you may enjoy the propaganda below from DNS vendor Nominum,
who I know are stalking many subscribers of this list to migrate to their
products.

Just so you know, the freeware you are relying on is pretty close to malware..

Quoting from:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39760362,00.htm?s_cid=260

"Q: In the announcement for Nominum's new Skye cloud DNS services, you say
Skye 'closes a key weakness in the internet'. What is that weakness?

A: Freeware legacy DNS is the internet's dirty little secret - and it's
not even little, it's probably a big secret. Because if you think of all the
places outside of where Nominum is today - whether it's the majority of
enterprise accounts or some of the smaller ISPs - they all have
essentially been running freeware up until now.

Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a
recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse.

Q: Are you talking about open-source software?

A: Correct. So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was
attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware.
Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to
problems. So we've seen the majority of the world's top ISPs migrating away
from freeware to a solution that is carrier-grade, commercial-grade and
secure.
..
Nominum software was written 100 percent from the ground up, and by having
software with source code that is not open for everybody to look at, it is
inherently more secure."

Lots more goodness in the link. Feel free to blog this up. In the DNS world,
we try to keep thing civil, but apparently, Nominum feels no need for this
anymore.

        Bert

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[Jeroen Wunnink]

Ok that was worth a chuckle or two..., but hey, there's always the
$major-company tech-deprived manager that will go for this bull-poo and
enforce it on the tech staff ;-)

Congrats with your son Bert..

bert hubert wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> Sorry for being a bit silent over the past two weeks, have been very busy
> with our newly born son Guus! Mother and son are doing really well.
>
> In the meantime, you may enjoy the propaganda below from DNS vendor Nominum,
> who I know are stalking many subscribers of this list to migrate to their
> products.
>
> Just so you know, the freeware you are relying on is pretty close to malware..
>
>  

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[Steve Spencer-6]

Bull-Poo is right.  Good grief.

Jeroen Wunnink wrote:

> Ok that was worth a chuckle or two..., but hey, there's always the
> $major-company tech-deprived manager that will go for this bull-poo and
> enforce it on the tech staff ;-)
>
> Congrats with your son Bert..
>
> bert hubert wrote:
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> Sorry for being a bit silent over the past two weeks, have been very busy
>> with our newly born son Guus! Mother and son are doing really well.
>>
>> In the meantime, you may enjoy the propaganda below from DNS vendor
>> Nominum,
>> who I know are stalking many subscribers of this list to migrate to their
>> products.
>>
>> Just so you know, the freeware you are relying on is pretty close to
>> malware..
>>
>>  
>

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[Peter Fern-3]

bert hubert wrote:
> Just so you know, the freeware you are relying on is pretty close to malware..
>  


Wow, that's not even funny.  Honestly, this kind of FUD should be illegal.
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[evilbunny]

Peter Fern wrote:
> bert hubert wrote:
>> Just so you know, the freeware you are relying on is pretty close to malware..
>>  
>
>
> Wow, that's not even funny.  Honestly, this kind of FUD should be illegal.

Judging by the comment on /. earlier, it seems like fraud to me:

Raindeer writes "Commercial DNS software provider Nominum, in an effort
to promote its new cloud-based DNS service, SKYE, has slandered all open
source/freeware DNS packages. It said: 'Given all the nasty things that
have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's
just going to get worse. ... So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a
Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were
using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is
opening up those customers to problems.' This has the DNS community
fuming. Especially when you consider that Nominum was one of the
companies affected by the DNS cache poisoning problem of last year,
something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS (all open source) weren't
vulnerable to."

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