[K12OSN] Meeting with district

[Patrick Haggood]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:12 -0600, Darryl Palmer wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote: 
>         Hey all,
>         
>         We met with the district this afternoon and, after much
>         discussion,
>         they agreed to let us use the thin clients as long as we
>         bought a 
>         hardware firewall to insulate us from the network. They're
>         comfortable with one brand (FortiNet) so we're looking at an
>         extra
>         $1000 or so.
>  
> I thought I remembered the name FortiNet from somewhere.  They were
> one of the first batch of companies to be found to violate the GPL.
> Be a real cold day before I give them a dime.  See
> http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5684880.html
>  
> Darryl
> 
Might they let you consider Smoothwall?
http://www.smoothwall.org/