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Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com)
Frank Tuzi
shows how to install PyKota in a Linux.com article.
"PyKota is a robust Linux-based open source print quota and print accounting system that runs via LDAP, MySQL, or PostgreSQL on the back end and CUPS and Samba on the front end. At our school, we have found it to be a powerful application capable of managing printers, users, groups, and accounting information using any currency."
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Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 7, 2006 15:33 UTC (Thu) by kssingvo (subscriber, #38999) [Link] It is NOT FREE software. Purchase cost is $25 and above.It's only true that a own build developer snapshot (downloaded via CVS?) is for free. But if you're looking out for a stable package, you need to purchase this. Good luck regarding stableness if you download a snapshot via CVS.
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 7, 2006 16:30 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] It is NOT FREE software. Purchase cost is $25 and above. It is free software in the sense that term is usually used around here--the $25 fee is just for the right to download certain pre-built packages from their server. You're then free to redistribute what you download under the GPL. Also, that one-time $25 fee seems to give unlimited access; it's not a per-download fee.
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 7, 2006 21:39 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] I'm afraid you don't know what you are talking about. PyKota uses Subversion, not CVS. You can load any historic revision, including those tagged as the official releases. You are not limited to the current source snapshots. Tags can be found using the web frontend. For instance, to get version 1.24HotFix3, runsvn co svn://svn.librelogiciel.com/pykota/tags/1.24HotFix3 pykota I cannot comment on the stability because I haven't used PyKota.
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 7, 2006 21:43 UTC (Thu) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link] "It is NOT FREE software. Purchase cost is $25 and above. " Why are you bullshitting PyKota?? For Christ's sake!! It is FREE software in the full sense of the FSF. Because it is licensed with the GPL. Get a life, kssingvo! No need to try such cheap trollings, really. Also, check your facts, please. "Good luck regarding stableness if you download a snapshot via CVS." What morons are you trying to influence? Never heard of a command like "cvs co -r $rev", eh? If you take the trouble to bullshit a fine piece of software, just because its developer asks for some money if he rolls you pre-compiled package (that he created, maintains and further-develops for GRATIS for you, you can as well take the trouble to ask your favorite distribution (what is it? SUSE? Debian? Redhat? Ubuntu? ??) to get the GPL'd source and package it up for you, ya know? Jeeeeze, what morons are hanging nowadays around the Good Ol' 'Net... Got no job, dude? Bored?
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 7, 2006 22:36 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] While the OP perhaps was very wrong, and spoke less than politely about the stability of SVN snapshots, he was not abusive....unlike you.
Please refrain from using such language and stop attacking people like that, even though they are wrong. This is the preferred and usual style of replying to others on LWN.net
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 8, 2006 8:30 UTC (Fri) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link] Ok, you are right. I was abusive and impolite. I am sorry for that. I was unable to control my blood temperature as it approached boiling point when reading his comments. (BTW, meanwhile I found out that "kssingvo" seems to be the packager of CUPS for SUSE/Novell -- all the more he should know better, and all the more the comments he made should have been based on sound research if he has no prior knowledge of PyKota... Or were they made deliberately the way they sounded??)
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 8, 2006 15:28 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]
When a simple mistake that someone made in a comment posted on a website, especially one that very well could've been a honest misunderstanding, gets your blood boiling to this point, maybe an anger management course would be a good idea. :) (Seriously; this is not intended as a troll or a flame. I honestly think that you could benefit from one.)
You may want to read up on Hanlon's razor...
Tracking and charging for printing with PyKota (Linux.com) Posted Sep 11, 2006 12:38 UTC (Mon) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link]
Didn't know that yet. "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice." Hmmm, I still wonder if not Kobserver's First Lemma has some validity too: "In Internet forums, don't precipitate to assume stupidity, when a trolling effort can also explain a line of argument." :-)
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