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,

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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