[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List,
I would invite you people to consider numbers, and leave away emotions.
1. We are getting two Nessus scanners. It that good or bad?
I believe that is good. Even the second one non-GPL.
2. Do we need old Nessus constantly changing with two month between versions? 
It's been a headache for me (keeping it connected to my DB extension for 
instance). The most important is a stable version. It is very likely that 
Tenable will keep debugging GPL version, because it costs much less than 
developing new.
3. How much time did we put in GPL version? Considering the list activity, we 
invested mostly in testing. Say we saved 10% or less of Renaud time. I would 
not consider this as major contribution. If the community has some guts, lets 
go ahead and slowly develop GPL Nessus. I can even contribute my NessusDBX DB 
extension.
4. We got free Nessus. For the majority of us the process will be the same: 
install, use, debug, use again. I bet may be only one off one hundred ever 
looked at the code. I did sometimes on plugins, but not the engine. So, with 
free-Nessus we got more options, so I would not complain.
5. The worse case scenario is if Tenable makes Free-Nessus not-so-free in a 
couple of years. Is this possible? Of course. However, if out community is 
capable of the development of GPL-Nessus, we have a plenty of time. Otherwise 
do not complain.


Mikhail Utin
AIS Security
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
401-832-6584


I agree...I cannot see anything wrong in trying to earn money on a darn fine product either... I am really quite surprised and pleased with that the commersialisation process didn't start earlier..
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