On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:26 -0500, Bryan Johns wrote: > On 8/28/07, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not worried about ClamAV being acquired. At the moment, everyone is > > saying that there are no plans to change anything. As long as that > > remains the case, the only difference is that there is now some money > > behind the project. If Sourcefire decides to start charging for updates > > some time in the future, I will re-evaluate my usage of ClamAV. Until > > then, I see no reason to worry about it. > > Even then, there's already been mention in this thread about forking > off an open version and/or the existence of third-party virus db > repositories. ClamAV appears to enjoy a great deal of community > support in the form of patches, bug fixes, and virus submissions. > > SourceFire would be foolish, in my opinion, to throw that away. If I > were part of their decision making process I'd recommend keeping it > like it is and rolling out an "enterprise" version with an actual help > desk for paying customers. It would also be stupid, IMHO, for the > community to turn away from ClamAV while a free version with free > virus updates were still available just out of anger because an > eeeeeeevil corporation bought it and tried to make some $$$. Amen. guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html