
He accepted the demand from them unwillingly, otherwise he might be under the risk to lose his place in the university. The role of Government should be to promote the competition in the market, not to restraint it.ĭespite his insistence, the bureaucracy of the Japanese Government enforced him to stop the distribution of SoftEther 1.0 as freeware. Rather it can occur the valid competition between commercial VPN products and free VPN products, and it should be for public interests. He also insisted that the characteristic of SoftEther 1.0, freeware, is not a dangerous for existing commercial VPN vendors' industry in Japan. He argued that of course SoftEther 1.0 might be dangerous tool because it can penetrate firewalls which are placed by system administrators, but it also might be a good tool for valid usage. The reason was: SoftEther 1.0 is a dangerous tool for both computer-security and the existing commercial VPN vendors' industry. In the project he completed the development of "SoftEther 1.0", and released SoftEther 1.0 on the web site on winter 2003.Īfter "SoftEther 1.0" was released, the Government of Japan enforced him to stop the distributing of SoftEther 1.0 for free of charge. He took 1-year subsidiary project from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. He applied the subsidiary aid program of research and development for new computer software. He programmed "SoftEther 1.0" as his personal project, in 2003, when he was 18, the first year in the University. He wanted to use Microsoft Remote Desktop (TCP Port 3389) on the campus Wi-Fi in order to connect his home PC via the Internet, however, it was impossible without any tools.

After he enrolled in University of Tsukuba he found that the public Wi-Fi access-points on the campus can only pass TCP Port 80 and 443. Daiyuu Nobori was a user of PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) with Windows Server Routing and Remote Access.
