"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>  wrote:
 > Believe it or not, a lot of others have come to the same
 > conclusion. FreeBSD seems to "own" the "firewall in a crate" market,
 > but we seem to have the most embedded software deployments. Linux
 > seems only to be in use in appliances like the Cobalt Raq where the
 > fact that the software has to be opened up doesn't matter.

I know of at least one 'firewall in a crate' product that was 
based on Linux and when I asked for source I was laughed at..

I refrained from laughing until I got off the phone.  I would venture
a guess that few companies actually pay attention to the license 
terms on the GPL.