On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Randy Rodriguez wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > >On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0500 > >Randy Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Let's not forget Big Brother > >>http://www.bb4.com > >>Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of > >>developers and users for support. > > > >I saw that one when I was looking. Did I misunderstand something, or is > >it not free software? (free as in food and/or free as in speech) > > They have a license the call the Better Than Free License (BTFL). > Basically, if you sell a service that incorporates BB, you have to > purchase a license, otherwise it's free. As per the page: "Simply put, > if Big Brother is helping you or someone else (in the case of > outsourcing) make money then you'll need to get a commercial license." > > Monitoring your own servers in house, free. Monitoring a client's > servers, in house or remote, commercial.
Calling that "Better Than Free" seems like a horrible misnomer. It might be better for *them*. (To answer Jacob S.'s question, no, it's not free as in speech.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
