Mercer, Jeff wrote: >Tenable is a company that makes money off of appliances that uses Nessus. So >they hire programmers to work on Nessus. They've decided to write a bunch of >proprietary code and create a new version of Nessus and not GPL it. In other >words, the code has ALREADY FORKED. > > You can put an interesting spin on that. If Tenable had come out saying "Nessus 2 will always be GPL, but we now have a new, improved commercial product called 'Kentauros', and by the way it's free to use too!", some people might not have become so upset.
PS: Totally OT, but where did the name Nessus come to be associated with a vuln scanner? I can't figure any linkage between Centaurs and vuln scanners. :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
