Is this article a joke?

Story: Stronghold Web Server, Putting a Price on Open SourceTotal Replies: 0
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tzafrir

Sep 16, 2004
3:02 PM EDT
Has the author done any minimal research? Those versions (apache, perl, php) are ancient history. Visit the Stronghold product page at Redhat: http://www.redhat.com/software/stronghold/

You'll see that it is no longer sold. For a long time.

Originally there were grave export limitations on decent encryption technologies. Thus distros couldn't simply add the crypto stuff in: sysadmins had to add it on their own. RedHat used this to sell a version of apache with mod_ssl already bundled. I figure that since they were sending this to US customers alone there were no export limitation problems.

Anyway, by now there are practically no problems with distributing and bundling Openssl , so the distros already do that for you. Thus stronghold has no edge and was silently merged into the RHEL product line.

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