Simple solution for you: Don't buy it.
Unless you helped write the software, you have no say in what it sells for.
The FreeVSD guys have done a lot of cool things for free...if they want
to charge for some of the things they do, you or I shouldn't begrudge
them that. I have no plans to use anything that isn't Open Source in my
products, but no one but me has an obligation to make sure that I have
all the tools I need.
I find it offensive when anyone attacks a mostly free software company
for creating a few non-free tools. Interestingly, when a proprietary
software company opens a few of their tools, they are praised far and
wide...but when the reverse happens, the community acts as if they've
been betrayed.
So...Unless you're writing an alternative, /right now/, and plan to
release it under the GPL or other OSS license, then you have no business
complaining (even then, it's probably in bad form to complain).
The phrase "looking a gift horse in the mouth" springs to mind...Sheesh.
Free VSD wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I feel the pricing of VSDclient and VSDcontrol is simply ridiculous,
> esp when both freeVSD and possibly the software is still bug
> ridden.
>
> Please any of you make the PHP WebAdmin scripts work better and
> forget about the clients. I'll make a stature for you! :-)
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Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
http://www.swelltech.com
