RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ2 - Alternatives, Secure admin UI, Porting special sauce to Slackware

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bb2 writes:

 > >Frankly, I feel insulted by Cobalt.  I know issues arrise, but I
 > >have trusted a corporation to provide me with a secure, publically
 > >accessible web, email, and ftp server.  I'm finding that the system
 > >is far beyond proprietary in design, insecure, nonextensible, and
 > >buggy.
 > 
 > Just remember, you get what you pay for.  In the case of Cobalt's
 > products, that's really QUITE a lot.  The more sophistication, the
 > slicker the GUI, the more potential gotchas.  I think on the whole,
 > Cobalt has developed a highly reliable, very easy to use interface to
 > facilitate easy forms based site administration. Give Cobalt a
 > chance, they'll patch it.
 > 
 > It won't be the last hole, by the way, you can be sure.  Those of us
 > who've run Sun servers over the years know you can also have the
 > pleasure of paying considerably more for a truly proprietary platform
 > just to face the same pitfalls.  Such security holes come with the
 > territory...

so cobalt is semi-proprietary and you still pay QUITE a lot?  :->

thi