Interesting post, kontro! So we have several alternatives. If the
project goes down the drain (as it seems to), I think as a last effort
we should document the alternatives which current Adito/ALS users have.

Anyways, perhaps 3sp did the right thing when they sold themselves to
Barracuda Networks - they can now relax and concentrate on milking money
from their customers ;). Somehow I have a feeling they won't be
aggressively developing the SSL-Explorer codebase now that it's as
closed as it can be.

I don't think 3sp benefited much from SSL-Explorer being OSS, besides
good publicity and easier marketing. Also, the code that Adito / ALS
community has provided (LDAP, RADIUS, clientcert and pam auth) would
have just sabotaged 3sp' "Enterprise" sales.

> Good mail from Samuli. I were interrested about contributing adito some
> time ago. But when I dig deeper into source I did find same problems.
> 
> Most discouraging experience were when I was studying Erlang programming
> language same time with Adito and found out how easily same problems
> could be solved with Erlang.
> 
> Actually I think that Nortel built their own similar solution top of Erlang 
> OS web server called YAWS (http://yaws.hyber.org/contribs.yaws). 
> YAWS has ssl support, integrated json support and 
> Linux-PAM authentication - so it supports any authentication Linux supports.
>
> I did check out YAWS source code and found out that turning it to
> Adito replacement would be quite simple (at least when comparing to JEE
> solution). Actually there is already yaws_revproxy.erl module in 
> YAWS git tree. As usual nice gui would be the biggest job. Agent of course
> needs to stay JAVA.
> 
> So I am happy about Samuli's new job and agree with his opinnions, but
> maybe questioning Arne's view about 'project magnitude' :)
> 
> (Not that I am going to start such Erlang project, just being smart ass and
> sharing my findings.)
> 
> -kontro-
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