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RE: [Dailydave] Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software
From: Kyle Quest (Kyle.Quest
networkengines.com)
Date: Sat Oct 08 2005 - 18:24:19 CDT
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>It's part of it anyway.
>There's a potential gain from GPL license through external contributions
>to the engine would have been a real benefit that could have balance the
>competition argument. But, if there's no real contribution, there's no
>benefit for Tenable having Nessus GPLed. There's a full bunch of project
>GPLed running without benefit.
>But now, if GPL license arms their business (competition argument), they
>only get loss out of it. As sad as it can be for users, this is imho a
>good reason for them to leave GPL.
Totally agree. That's kinda what I was talking about in one of the previous
emails. The Nessus statement can be paraphrased into this:
We don't get any benefit from open source (aka nobody contributes),
but we feel the pains of open sources (aka other companies using code).
I totally understand them. It's just silly to blame GPL for it...
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