earlybird said:
Look to Acrobat, Linux, Google, Rar, Winzip, Antivir and hundreds more
programs wich are also free products.
I don't think a firewall will generate as much money as Google, but why not?
I don't read anything from Comodo support and they have to know that there
is a lot of concern with there firewall.
You are not the first person who likes to promote this firewall; why not
much more promotion from the Comodo developers??
What gave you the impression that I am "promoting" this product?
This newsgroup topic is freeware and Comodo isn't freeware; it's free for a
year after registration.
Please go back and read what I wrote again. If you wish, you are free to
go directly to the board that I paraphrased, in which a representative
of Comodo stated very clearly that registrations would be renewed, free,
for an additional year after expiration of the initial registration.
If you look to WallWatcher (WW); that is/was freeware and also has a very
good support. The author of WW let you use WW for free and hasn't any
registration for using his software. Comodo should do the same.
Some free products require registration. The publisher is probably using
a module that they developed for their other products.
I have no problems with testing there firewall if it was really free; if
there site gives more information and that there support is active in
newsgroups ( firewall related or on GRC ) to defend this firewall much
better then they do now.
I suspect that you are right in that we would probably fill the role of
beta testers. And it would be nice of the publisher to tell us that.
However, this is as much conjecture on my part as it is on yours (!).
Perhaps one of us should just ask Comodo what their motive is. From the
answer that I received to my email, it seemed to me that the person who
replied has some difficulty with English; and not all of my questions
were answered.
The web site is very inadequate, which is strange for a commercial
publisher like this one, which is located in New Jersey.
Sygate has one very big hole ( localhost ) and that problem should be solved
in there next version. That was before Sygate was taken over and now we know
that there will be never a free Sygate firewall wich have solved this
problem.
I was able to find rather quickly that the free Sygate version has been
withdrawn as completely as Trotsky from photos with Stalin (quick: if
you want it, it's still downloadable from some independent sites). When
it comes to the free version, the problem will never be "solved," however.
Make Comodo real freeware and I will give Comodo a change ASAP; even as beta
tester.
As I've already pointed out here and in my prior post, Comodo is indeed
freeware, at least for the next two years, if their word is to be
trusted. I suspect that the American publisher is agenting in some way
for a developer in another country, where little attention is being paid
to their public image. That foreign developer, who may have crafted an
excellent product, has a real problem communicating in English -- the
result is giving us the impression that we are dealing with amateurs. I
doubt that this is the case because, after all, their product passes the
"tooleaky" test!
By the way, there's no mention of system requirements on their web site;
I mentioned in my post to them that I wanted to try Comodo Firewall on
my Windows ME system before installing it on two Windows XP computers.
The reply included a replacement attachment for one program file as well
as a new registration code -- no explanation was provided. I assumed
that this might be what would make Comodo "go" in Windows 9x, so I ran
the installation .exe file, and was promptly rewarded with a message
telling me that it wouldn't go in anything before NTFS.
And, after all, in my post, I had encouraged them to put the system
requirements on their web site...
Dunno.
I am a bit burned out on testing software, having spent considerable
time test-driving metronome and text editing programs of late. From the
traffic on this forum recently, the only free firewall that I can think
of using is still Sygate.
Richard
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