Good News Linux Novell

Michael Thomas (mike@fasolt.mtcc.com)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:49:06 -0800


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.

Mike