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Re: (ASCEND) "Free" Software vs. Licensed (was "analyse RADIUS logs")

James Fischer wrote:
> 
> >The above is very opionated and lot of sarcasm
> 
>         Sorry if I touched a nerve, but I think that it is clear
>         that EVERYONE starts with the "lingua franca" public-domain
>         Radius, and takes advantage of the baseline functionality.
>         It seems clear that we all stand on the shoulders of those
>         who came before us (as physically impossible as this may sound).
>         Therefore, I repeat.  All vendors of any commercial Radius
>         owe much to the original work.

There is the Livingston Reference Code and there is the RFC.  The former
is NOT compliant with the later.  Yes it was a good step, but it has
been
laid to rest for quite a while.

>         As for promoting one platform vs another, this is obvious
>         to the casual observer.  If had you ported Radius NT to Unix,
>         you might have me as a customer.  Since you didn't, you don't.

And you don't see me trying to sell you a product or say that RadiusNT
is the only solution, do you?  Thats what you are trying to make it
into, though.
 
> >on something you don't know much about
> 
>         Please excuse my modesty.  I pre-date the "internet" itself,

Congrats.

> >So why comment on it?  RadiusNT and Emerald are un-matched on ANY
> >platform, UNIX or NT, for what it does.
> 
>         Is this presented as fact, or opinion?  Sales pitch, or
>         consensus of the community as a whole?

Fact.  For what we do as a single suite, I (and none of the people
who buy our products who have searched the market) have not found
anything
that compares.  We do all major functions in a single management
interface.



-- 
Dale E. Reed Jr.  (daler@iea.com)
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