[TriLUG] quick, name an open source monitoring solution

[Bill Farrow]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
>
Forking is good, it provides a safety valve if the maintainer or
company goes in a different direction.

The Nagios website doesn't make it obvious which license there
products are under, but Wikipedia says that Nagios is under GPLv2.
Perhaps the new frontend products are under a different license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios

> P.S. I have no idea why they think commercial is synonymous with
> proprietary.

We need to actively jump on this and correct this particular FUD,
otherwise people who are less informed will associate Open Source with
non-commercial behavior.  Next they will call us communists... oh
wait, that was Bill Gates circa 2005.


Bill