RE: Funny note here on a worm

["Kyle Quest" <Kyle.Quest () networkengines com>]

> I don't have any issues with Sourcefire charging for the
> rules updates and if folks want to chat about it on this
> list, I can save us all a lot of time by posting the for/against
> threads from the various Nessus, Snort, vuln-watch mailing
> lists.

I don't care if they charge for the rules either.
What's sad is how this GPL project is changing...
especially how the GPL rules all of a sudden became
SourceFire rules. What's sad is how the business
people are exploiting the project. This why they
have this silly advisory about the worm being developed.
This is pure marketing talk to make SourceFire 
,as a company, sound important.

Now to address what Jason wrote:

> I fail to see how you can come to that conclusion.

I know how the marketing talk sounds. You can recognize
it based on how it's worded and how much information 
is provided. It takes practice to recognize this
kind of thing.

> To label it
> a sales and marketing tool is an injustice and shows that you really
> have no clue what it is or what goes into deciding how to balance open
> source and commercial.

I'm just pointing out the facts. 

> I think Sourcefire has done a great job to date
> and I expect that to continue.

I'm not saying that they haven't, but you should
realize yourself that like in any commercial
company you are dealing with different forces.
On one hand, you got technical guys who are doing
great things for Snort and, on the other hand,
you have business guys who are trying to make
money any way they can... exploiting anything
they can...

> Snort is the same as it has always been. Snort is released under the
> GPL. When you go to work for free and spend millions of dollars and
> man-hours developing a technology that others think they own you might
> understand the rules licensing change.

Two words for you: "Linux kernel".

Kyle










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