Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Dec 1996 17:30:23 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Good News Linux Novell |
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > Chai Harjo writes: > > Anybody in Linux community would be interested to port NDS to > > Linux? It would be a big boost for Linux too because it is > > FREEEEEEEEE. > > Aren't there issues with RSA encryption > licensing? They use it to encrypt login stuff. > Even if you had source, wouldn't you still most > likely owe RSA money if you redistributed it? NDS > is really slow too. Ick. And NDS alone doesn't > come close to implementing all of their file > server cruft, which is pretty, well, ad hoc comes > to mind.
Oh, who cares about the file-server stuff? If sufficiently unencumbered, this would be about 85% of a commercial-grade X.500 directory implementation (missing the standard protocols that make it interoperable with others, but that shouldn't be too big a stumbling-block).
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.
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