I'm curious about this: though the source is not "open", is it still available for review/compilation, or is the windows agent distributed as a pre-compiled binary only? I'm curious because while I'd prefer (in theory) to use the syslog-ng agent on windows machines to forward to my syslog-ng servers... one of the benefits of using the available ones (evtsys, snare) is the ability to at least diagnose, resolve, and post back fixes when necessary. Obviously whatever your company decides is its right, but my policy is not to run free (unsupported) binary-only software because of the inability to at least post a sensible bug report. Looking forward to checking it out either way however, since I'm also not against buying software ;) Thanks for all the great work. /eli Balazs Scheidler wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:59 -0500, wiskbroom@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks Bazsi, I just painted my friends entire house for "free beer" :-(
I don't see the reasoning behind the negative smily, on "free beer" I meant that the agent will be free to use, but will not come with a free (as in freedom license), e.g. it will not be GPLed.
Of course it is less than ideal (in an ideal world everything should be free and come with a GPL license), but this is something my company invested actual $$$s in, and I was happy I could convince our management team to allow at least a free version of the program.
-- Bazsi
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