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Re: [Snort-devel] RFC: Forking Snort
From: james <james () ActionMessage com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:03:55 -0700
Ryan Russell wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Jed Pickel wrote:Few would disagree that Snort has successfully become a "killer app". The challenge Snort now faces is how to avoid becoming a victim of its own success. Apache is an example of open source code that has successfully bridged the gap from killer app to significant piece of Internet Infrastructure. This success can be attributed to governing and regulating Apaches growth through a consortium.Is there any evidence that Apache's success is a result of there being a consortium? I mean that seriously.. I don't know all that much about the project and how it is run.
Forking snort: -1 :) (apache members vote on new ideas/patches via email with -1, 0 +1) The Apache group was formed because there were multiple programmers with multiple patches and were desperate for an updated webserver. They werent't thinking, "Let's strike a committee and build a significant piece of Internet Infrastructure." For a fork to succeed, there has to be code contribution by programmer(s). Otherwise nobody will use the new fork. I'm a working programmer. In general, when I look at code for many security tools, plugins especially, I wince because it does suck. A lot of the contributors are enthusiastic non-programmers, so no big surprise there. (Hint: if you're gonna write a perl program, enable use strict; and -w, or don't bother making it public.) And as far as Sourcefire making money, more power to them. I would worry more about the influence of Sourcefire investors if Sourcefire doesn't make money, because investors in a down round are way demanding. But hey, the code is still GPL. Later, James. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- RFC: Forking Snort Jed Pickel (Jul 02)
- Re: [Snort-devel] RFC: Forking Snort Ryan Russell (Jul 02)
- Re: [Snort-devel] RFC: Forking Snort james (Jul 02)
- Re: RFC: Forking Snort Erek Adams (Jul 02)
- Re: RFC: Forking Snort Martin Roesch (Jul 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: RFC: Forking Snort Andrew R. Baker (Jul 02)
- sorta new at doing this with snort Don (Jul 04)
- Re: sorta new at doing this with snort Imran William Smith (Jul 04)
- sorta new at doing this with snort Don (Jul 04)
- Re: RFC: Forking Snort Jed Pickel (Jul 04)
- Re: RFC: Forking Snort Kyle R. Hofmann (Jul 04)
- Re: [Snort-devel] Re: RFC: Forking Snort Martin Roesch (Jul 04)
- Re: Re: [Snort-devel] Re: RFC: Forking Snort John Sage (Jul 04)
- Re: [Snort-devel] RFC: Forking Snort Ryan Russell (Jul 02)