Re: RADIUS 2? (fwd)

Matthew N. Dodd (winter@jurai.net)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:22:56 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> We're tired of doing all the development work and then having other
> companies take our work and build on it. Look at how other companies like
> Ascend took 1.16 and made is a basis for their server. We put a lot of

The Ascend code sucks about as much as the Livingston code it was derived
from, but there are ALOT of changes and its a VERY different animal.

Maybe you should take a peek at it.

At least Ascend's radius implementation isn't as broken as Livingstons.

(Don't feel too bad, USR's derived version is even worse.)

> time into 2.0 and developing things like menuing which no other server has
> and we're not willing to just give that away to competitors. The license
> is very open where the users are concerned, there really isn't a difference
> where Livingston users are concerned.

I see valid reason for concern, but not the extent that would cause
Livingston to restrict their code.

> It is bad enough that other companies are hyping RADIUS as the greatest
> thing to come along for comm servers - and conveniently forgetting to mention
> it isn't their invention.

Script started on Mon Sep 23 05:18:16 1996
[sasami]:/usr/local/src/radius/radius-960528/radius-1.16-ascend/ascendd>
grep -c  Livingston *
acct.c:6
attrprint.c:6
builddbm.c:6
cache.c:0
cache.h:0
cexample.c:0
conf.h:5
des.c:0
des.h:0
dict.c:6
filters.c:0
Makefile:0
md5.c:0
md5.h:0
protos.h:0
radius.h:8
radiusd.c:6
radpass.c:6
users.c:6
usr_read.c:5
util.c:6
version.c:6
[sasami]:/usr/local/src/radius/radius-960528/radius-1.16-ascend/ascendd>
exit

Script done on Mon Sep 23 05:18:33 1996

*yawn* Yea, sure. Ok. They just didn't mention you guys at all.

Oh, and do mind the black helicopters that watch you as you drive to
work every day.

Have a good one.

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