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WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by tokenizerrr »

swartkrans wrote: post #47
Arkanosis wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't tell for others, but I'm very reluctant to spend time learning a tool that I know from the beginning I won't be able to debug / improve later and that the owner may change in a way that doesn't fit me or even stop to support. The only non-FOSS tools I've been using on a daily basis for years are Gmail and Google Calendar. I can't tell I'm really happy with how they have evolved out of my control. Oh, and Google…

How do you charge for something that can be freely redistributed? How can I charge you $50 for software that you can then take and give to everyone for free because of the open source license? Where are people going to get that software from? From me where it costs $50 or from you where they can get it for free? The GNU website says you can charge for distribution, but that was written back when people distributed CD…

Commercial licenses and training. This may not be FOSS, but it can be open source. Or you can have a partially open source product with some closed source extensions, like JetBrains does.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by tokenizerrr »

reitanqild wrote: post #70
easytiger wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is windows 7 only. So if anyone wanted to port it to OSX or Linux they would need to do a clean room implementation. Q.E.D.

https://wireedit.com/downloads.html ?

This is actually a good example. There are no linux ARM builds available, which makes this product useless for me. A lot of closed source software (cough sublime text cough) neglects the less common processor architectures, while with open source software I can usually just compile it myself.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by reitanqild »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #73
reitanqild wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://wireedit.com/downloads.html ?

This is actually a good example. There are no linux ARM builds available, which makes this product useless for me. A lot of closed source software ( cough sublime text cough ) neglects the less common processor architectures, while with open source software I can usually just compile it myself.

I just pointed out that gp says it is Windows only which is obviously wrong.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by easytiger »

reitanqild wrote: post #70
easytiger wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is windows 7 only. So if anyone wanted to port it to OSX or Linux they would need to do a clean room implementation. Q.E.D.

https://wireedit.com/downloads.html ?

If you are on any other glib version or on rh this won't work.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by easytiger »

reitanqild wrote: post #74
tokenizerrr wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually a good example. There are no linux ARM builds available, which makes this product useless for me. A lot of closed source software ( cough sublime text cough ) neglects the less common processor architectures, while with open source software I can usually just compile it myself.

I just pointed out that gp says it is Windows only which is obviously wrong.

I didn't say it wasn't but a build for a very recent Ubuntu the build is useless. Also it doesn't work for XP for which there can be no technical reason.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by wnevets »

wirefloss wrote: post #61
wnevets wrote: post #58

Google chrome didnt like this download at all, telling me its a virus.

You can now download the .msi installer separately. Not sure it'll make Chrome happy. If you want the folder with Pcap example files, download Ubuntu version, and tar xvf it. It still has the examples folder inside.

Thanks for the effort. Chrome is actually throwing a "Uncommon" warning on both files, which I guess is better than a malware warning.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4412392?p=ib_downlo...

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by chappar »

anExcitedBeast wrote: post #27

Very cool! I've been wanting something like this for a while. Going to make my life easier. I think it'd be great if you could implement a plugin feature so people could import custom protocols.

I am curious what you would be using this for

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

#79

Post by pyre »

cbd1984 wrote: post #65
pyre wrote: post #33

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Presumably the crowd that a packet editor is targeted at knows their way around something like WireShark, and could easily monitor the software for phoning home. That's a pretty strong incentive to not do it.

So now I have to keep tabs on the behavior of my tools, in addition to everything else I have to keep tabs on?

I was stating that within the crowd of people that such a tool is targeted at, someone will run a packet sniffer against it. The likelihood of this happening is high. This is a severe disincentive for someone to 'phone home' if they plan to keep making money from said group of people. As soon as someone runs a packet sniffer and finds something suspect, the whole thing falls apart.

But no, you don't have to keep tabs on it, because you don't have to use this tool. If you do choose to use this tool, you can play the probabilities and more than likely be fine.

Re: WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

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Post by SnacksOnAPlane »

swartkrans wrote: post #47
Arkanosis wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't tell for others, but I'm very reluctant to spend time learning a tool that I know from the beginning I won't be able to debug / improve later and that the owner may change in a way that doesn't fit me or even stop to support. The only non-FOSS tools I've been using on a daily basis for years are Gmail and Google Calendar. I can't tell I'm really happy with how they have evolved out of my control. Oh, and Google…

How do you charge for something that can be freely redistributed? How can I charge you $50 for software that you can then take and give to everyone for free because of the open source license? Where are people going to get that software from? From me where it costs $50 or from you where they can get it for free? The GNU website says you can charge for distribution, but that was written back when people distributed CD…

Have you considered doing some freemium model? So maybe the base code is open source, but the modules for decoding some protocols cost money?
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