Re: Commercial file-server software

From: sutil83 (sutil83_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/14/05 

Date: 14 Sep 2005 07:20:19 -0700

Wow, I go to sleep for a night and I get a bunch of responses. Thanks
people. Unfortunately it seems as if my fears are realized that there
is no commercial products and that any that used to exist are now
defunct.

But in response to other posts, this will be re-distributed out of our
company and if used, Samba will be included, incorporated and used.
Whether or not it is modified now is irrelevant, the lifespan of this
product is intended to be decades. The real fear that the legal
department here has (and other out of company entities that I can't
name), is that sometime in the life of the product, updates, upgrades
or whatever might occur. Basically there is a possibility that
something might happen that would require a change in source code, in
this case the GPL code.

So either a restriction is placed or we just don't use open-source at
all. The decision was made to generally avoid open-source since who
knows the implications of a restriction of that sort, a decade from now
when the product needs a slight tune-up. Also, a change might need to
be made right off the bat, even before distribution. All these
"maybe's" don't sit well and the more of those there are, the more
likely the client boots us.

The situation is a hard one since what will be done to Samba, or
anything of the sort, is unknown at this point. Which is why I was
looking for alternatives to avoid this whole fiasco. All the points
you guys bring up are true and I realized there are work arounds. All
I attempted to do by this thread is possibly find an alternative.
Dealing with legal over here is one matter that's hard enough as it is.
 Convincing the client is impossible. The possibility that any of
their information becomes freely distributed is unnacceptable. Not
even that it is, even just the POSSIBILITY.

Now before you try and tell me to talk to the client about it, don't
bother. Just trust me when I say it can't be done.
Anyway you guys did help out by confirming what I already knew: no
commercial alternatives to Samba. So it looks like this mini-task will
have to be continued in some other form.

Thanks a lot for all the responses.

Best Regards to All,
Sutil83

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