RE: RE: goodbye ethereal, hello wireshark?

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Yah, I knew it was something like that....   If they're not going to be using the name, ever, they should just allow 
Ethereal to keep it's name....   WireShark is a cool name and all, but it's not the same :-)

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Schneider [mailto:Borbarad () gmxpro net] 
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:39 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec); funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: RE: [funsec] goodbye ethereal, hello wireshark?

> Ethereal got hired by another company and somehow there was a conflict of
> interests with the name or some such thing.... Memory failing...
Basically the company still owns the right to the name "Ethereal". That is why the project cannot use it anymore - 
legally. The company itself does not seem to intend to use the name in future, though.

Oliver
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