[hobbit] Would xymon survive?

[michael nemeth]

Oh I agree with you about license. What foolishness!  We have MANY 
license that have no support.
So wrong about "commercial licenses".
I actual was forbidden to use BTF Big Brother,  because  they didn't  
like the BTF  license  nor want at the time to buy
bb pro even though  BOTH Quest and Andrea gave permission
to use it completely free to  me.

And about some one stepping up probably the company that Henrik works 
for would  mantain it.

Stef Coene wrote:
> On Friday 12 December 2008, michael nemeth wrote:
>   
>> I gave I high successful  Xymon presentation that got me management
>> support to have it evaluated by
>> a larger group of people . Actually the management support was very strong
>> !
>>
>> One Sysadmin, expressed the worry that since xymon is basic a one
>> programmer product what
>> would happen if Henrik could no  longer support  it.   I  told them
>> about  the  movement  for
>> more than one programer to support it via the Subversion archive on
>> Sourceforge,
>>
>> Still if Henrik was gone would some one support it? Would Henrik company
>> allow  outsider
>> to maintain it.  Ok, in other words would xymon survive?
>>     
> There is no "Henrik company".  Of course, there is a company that pays Henrik 
> and Henrik is allowed to work on xymon.  But if Henrik stops developing 
> xymon, somebody will step in (I'm willing to do) and start developing.  Why?  
> Because the product is too good to let it die.
>
>   
>> As an aside I ran across a free product yesterday (don't remember what)
>> that would sell
>> a commercial license , that was basically a disclaimed for commpany that
>> just HAD to
>> have commercial licenses.   Might not be a bad idea Henrik?
>>     
> Selling a commercial license means nothing.  I'm willing to sell you a license 
> so you can use xymon and as a bonus, I give you the source code for free!
> The problem with commercial licenses is that if you sell a license, you are 
> expected to deliver also support.  And one person alone can not do this.
>
>
> Stef
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