Re: [squid-users] Re: gzip

swelltech.com are listed here:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Devel/

and here:

http://www.squid-cache.org/SPONSORS.txt

and a search on www.squid-cache.org "swelltech" shows about 1600 hits...so
I think it's a pretty reasonable to assume that Swelltech are "for real" ;)

They seem to be asking for funds to pay for a developer, except that they
have written most of the code already. I would think it wasteful to
sponsor someone else to write this functionality again when, if the funding
is found, the code will be released under the GPL anyway..

Reuben

At 02:17 p.m. 9/07/2004, ohenry wrote:
> > > Also Swell Technology claims to have such a patch up for ransom. Does
> > > anyone know if their patch is for real and if it works as I described
> > > above?
> >
> > No idea - never heard of the company. I don't know how much they're
> > charging, but rather than purchasing that, you (and others who are
> > interested) could instead invest the money in sponsoring a Squid developer
> > to implement it in Squid proper.
>
>They claim the patch works great and they haven't released it yet b/c
>squid 3.0 is in feature freeze. One of the engineers there told me they
>are going to release it under the GPL once Squid 3.1 begins.
>
>But they are asking for $400 to gain access to the pre-release patch.
>
>http://swelltech.com/squidgzip/
>
>So in theory it already exist and will be apart of Squid 3.1 very soon
>but who knows if these guys are for real. I was really hoping people on
>this list would know who they were...
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 20:46:38 MDT