Kermit is much more than a file transfer protocol.
Besides Serial communication, it can handle many network protocols: FTP, Telnet, HTTP, SSH to name a few. It can use the telnet comm control, to handle network attached modems. It has a macro/programming language. For those jobs where one needs to recognize success or failure of a transfer, this is a boon.
And in the Windows version it has a large number of terminal emulations.
Why would it take 48 minutes per day every working day to maintain software?
I'm responsible for the installation of a suite of OSS applications and I barely spend any time on maintenance. Once the installation is complete and the initial configuration completed, there is almost nothing to do until a problem appears. At that point I may need to do some research. The only other maintainence might be every few months to may check for a new release.
In what way is this any different than a commercial product?
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Kermit is much more than a file transfer protocol.
Besides Serial communication, it can handle many network protocols: FTP, Telnet, HTTP, SSH to name a few. It can use the telnet comm control, to handle network attached modems. It has a macro/programming language. For those jobs where one needs to recognize success or failure of a transfer, this is a boon.
And in the Windows version it has a large number of terminal emulations.
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How many times do you ask your shopping companion to pick up something you forgot....
Why would it take 48 minutes per day every working day to maintain software?
I'm responsible for the installation of a suite of OSS applications and I barely spend any time on maintenance. Once the installation is complete and the initial configuration completed, there is almost nothing to do until a problem appears. At that point I may need to do some research. The only other maintainence might be every few months to may check for a new release.
In what way is this any different than a commercial product?
How does adding the extra wording help?
The end user of the distribution is still precluded from doing commercial work with your software.
And what about non-linux (*BSD) distributions?
Will you include them?