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RE: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software
From: Ron Gula <rgula () tenablesecurity com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:52:06 -0400
What should be of more concern to the community is that the Nessus source is being closed. Personally, I would have suggested to adjust pricing a bit and add restrictions to counter reseller-leeching, but keep the source open.
How would charging people more money prevent them from not abiding by the GPL or even Tenable's license agreements?
- Nessus 2 source is still available, GPLed and will be maintained. - Nessus 3 will be available shortly and be free
Now that it is being closed, I wonder how long ittakes before the community once supporting Renauld will fork the currentcode and carry on by themselves.
We haven't had any support of this kind. I really feel there are very capable programers out there who can contribute to Nessus, but to date we haven't really gotten any. Even on the NASL vuln check side, a majority of the plugins are Tenable.
Open source software has the interesting property to survive attempts toprivatize code into proprietary environments, mainly be forking and living on.
It sure does. Again, we're not trying to hide Nessus 2 code. We've just made many improvements to the engine and don't want to expose these algorithms.
(Ron, I know you read DD. Please reconsider turning your back on the community. Raise prices or do whatever, but leave the code open.)
Why do you need the code? Right now, the vulnerability checks are still in NASL too.
I don't think we're turning our back at all. Giving away a product two to five times faster than the current open source version makes most people very happy.
Rasing prices screws the average nessus user and puts recent vulnerability checks out of the hands of people who can't afford it.
--rgula
Current thread:
- Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Jose Ribeiro Junior (Oct 06)
- Re: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Johnathan Norman (Oct 06)
- RE: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Sash (Oct 07)
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- RE: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Frank Knobbe (Oct 07)
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- RE: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Frank Knobbe (Oct 08)
- Re: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Renaud Deraison (Oct 08)
- Re: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Frank Knobbe (Oct 09)
- Re: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software Renaud Deraison (Oct 09)