Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Win32 Ethereal

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Some of the reason for that might involve the numbers on the page in
> > question that happen to be followed by the "$" character. :-)  (Some of
> > the sniffers they mention aren't quite so expensive, though.)
> 
> I'd like to clarify that review a bit.  First, yes, price was a factor. 

In "some of the reason for that" I was referring to the

> And judging by the HTTP logs on ethereal.zing.org, the win32 port is *very*
> popular.

not to the "5 socket" rating - i.e., I meant that, given the choice
between, say, buying Sniffer and downloading Ethereal, some might go
with Ethereal just because they don't have to write a big check to
Network Associates.