Re: Remote health test for servers?
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 <randy@mercurytech.com> 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 [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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