On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:44:16 -0500, Hernando Tovar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Luca Deri wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > if you want your money back, please mail to me and you'll have it. > > The money is used to run the project (for instance I need to buy > > Gbit cards and switches for the ring developments). ntop is released > > under GPL that explicitly states the no guarantee disclaimer. > > > > Back to your problem. ntop is based on several libraries that have > > been ported from Unix to Win32. They more or less work but as you > > can see this is not always the case. Please provide me an account on > > your host, install Visual C++ in there, and I can (hopefully) debug > > the problem(e.g. I can connect using Windows terminal services). ..the problem is, Microsoft is actually sabotaging coders who uses the GPL. Because the GPL makes use of copyright law to protect coders from being screwed by Microsoft. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL ..they (Microsoft) say they spend 5 Million US$ to combat cybercrime such as making and spreading viruses, while they this far has pumped in, I estimate 75 Million US$, into SCO's lawsuit on IBM, details are provided in the rather excellent analysis and investigation work done in http://groklaw.net/ ;-) ..purpose: Use SCO's pump-n-dump stock scheme to spread FUD to keep US, Colombian etc etc industry etc from getting the securest 'n cheapest 'n best software that would the end user back in control of what your company needs to buy, rather than hop-n-buy every time Microsoft says so. ..yes, Microsoft _knows_ they buy into a illegal pump-n-dump stock scheme that will cause loss of their _entire_ "investment". ..they (Microsoft) may even be able to recover, legally, under US law, their "loss", as a tax-deductible business expense. > Luca, > > Unfortunatly the ntop for Win 32 that you made it doesn't work, crash > to often. My boss is after me if we can have our money back. He > doesn't understand the big effort behind the development of ntop for > Windows. ..your boss can be understood 2 ways: "Luca and Burton are bandits who lure money off naive idiots" like yourselves, and "Surely Microsoft cannot have a problem cooperating with Luca and Burton under US copyright law?". ;-) ..in the latter case, google for "Microsoft" "cooperation" and "lawsuit" etc, to get your boss up to date. ;-) ..in the first case; if you need someone to chew out your boss, just say the word. ;-) > I didn't want to get this far but considering the cincunstances we > centanly want our money back. > I personaly will continue exploring with ntop in Linux and I hope that > this commercial desition doesn't affect me in the future when I'll ask > for help or advices in the ntop mailing list. > > Thanks anyway. > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
