What are the major differences between mod_ssl and the commercial alternatives like Raven or Stronghold?
[L] In the past (until September 20th, 2000) the major difference was the RSA license which one received (very cheaply in contrast to a direct licensing from RSA DSI) with the commercial Apache SSL products. On the other hand, one needed this license only in the US, of course. So for non-US citizens this point was useless. But now even for US citizens the situations changed because the RSA patent expired on September 20th, 2000 and RSA DSI also placed the RSA algorithm explicitly into the public domain. Second, there is the point that one has guaranteed support from the commercial vendors. On the other hand, if you monitored the Open Source quality of mod_ssl and the support activities found on modssl-users@modssl.org, you could ask yourself whether you are really convinced that you can get better support from a commercial vendor. Third, people often think they would receive perhaps at least a better technical SSL solution than mod_ssl from the commercial vendors. But this is not reall
