On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
> Am wondering if I missed this somewhere... was an explanation given (other
> than the "lack of other contributors" line) for the commercialization of
> Nessus?
>...
Please don't oppose "Commercial" and "Free Software".
Using the term "Commercial Software" as the opposite of "Free Software"
is not just simply wrong but also hazardous to the evolvement of the
Free Software concept in business environment.
The attribute "commercial" in business is a synonym for "professional".
Thus, if you oppose the terms "Commercial Software" and "Free Software",
you imply Free Software to be less professional. Don't do it if you like
the Free Software concept!
The opposite of Free Software is proprietary software. Both can either
be commercial or non-commercial. A Free Software can be called
commercial, if you can buy certain services such as training,
installation, configuration/setup, maintenance, development etc. and a
customer can be satisfied with any subset of these. Non-commercial Free
Software is software where you can't pay a company for services.
Non-commercial proprietary software is usually gratis software (often
referred to as "freeware") without available services from companies.
Nessus has always been a professional product!
Both, the proprietary versions and the Free Software one
are commercial.
Best
Jan
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Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/
Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/
Kolab Konsortium http://kolab-konsortium.de/
FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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