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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:30:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      William Bulley <web@merit.edu>
To:        langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Radius & simultaneous users
Message-ID:  <199803261230.HAA00570@ohm.merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803252220.MAA18179@makai.maui.net> from "David Langford" at Mar 25, 98 12:20:09 pm

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According to David Langford:
> 
> About $10,000 more than the "basic" server. Kinda puts it out of the ball
> park of anyone but the really really big boys.

That figure is for the enhanced source, we also have binary releases
but not for FreeBSD (yet) -- not for technical, but management, reasons.

The two code bases are very close.  We charge a license fee for the
"supported" software which has more features, but we also have the
"basic" version which is our committment to the betterment of the net.

> Personally I think it was a conspiracy by said "big boys"[1] to keep
> economical radius software away from the populace and make them buy
> their own products.

No, we charge that fee to defray our support costs and keep our team
together.  If you have a bone to pick about the fee structure, maybe
dropping a line to aaa-license@merit.edu would get some sort of reply.

Who knows, maybe "they" would work out a deal for some set of "givens".

Regards,

web...

-- 
William Bulley                     Senior Systems Research Programmer
Merit Network, Inc.                Email: web@merit.edu
4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C        Phone: (734) 764-9993
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48105-2785    Fax:   (734) 647-3185

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