According to the book "Nessus Network Auditing" It has nothing to do with the blood stained robe that killed Hercules. But then the author goes to explain that he picked it at random from the mythology encyclopedia so by chance or by choice it's a fitting name for a useful tool.
Funny thing... for all the months on this mailing list the first thing I ever answer right has nothing to do with the product. Scott Champine Lan Tech II Peoria Unified School District (623)486-6127 "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Haar Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: followup Qs on license changes 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 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
