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Re: As a person using snort and helping others use snort for the first time
From: Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <jkerouac () bgsec com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:42:58 +0100
El sáb, 05-03-2005 a las 22:46 -0600, Patrick S. Harper escribió:
It is no secret I am a fan of snort (if my server logs are to be believed I have helped tens of thousands install snort on redhat/fedora based platforms and have been translated to many languages), But I am also a fan of Sourcefire because I am a fan of snort and they have given so much to snort (snort itself as we know it even) for free ever since they have been. I thank Marty, Brian, Jason, Ken, Ed, and the rest of the Sourcefire team for all the help they are continually giving to the community. I commend Marty for his objective of keeping snort free while running a company based on the same technology, and as a customer of Sourcefire I see the difference in time between upgrades in the commercial products and the open source products lately can be a matter of hours, not days. That is amazing to me. That all said I think any hard work should be honored, at least recognized of the effort put forth. I have had a number or request over the past few years to branch documentation I have written into different languages an or different platforms and I enthusiastically say "yes please" as long as they credit the source. Marty, Bran(, and Sourcefire) I think are the same way. I have had the pleasure to meet both over the years and think they (in my opinion) want nothing more then acknowledgment for the work they have done. Marty himself gave us snort and most its glorious improvements and Brian gave so much in snort and snort rules development I am not sure how he got any sleep over the past few years. All said and done, if someone has done work and you are making money on it give credit where credit is due. It is the least you can do. Many have made livings on snort and Sourcefire appliances, few I know of have thanked the source of that (as far as I know and have seen and heard). I have several times personally to the people that made it possible but from the bottom of my heart, if you had any hand in the development or advancement of snort "thank you" for I owe you a lot. If your in Dallas shoot me a line and we will go out for a beer. Thanks for everything Patrick S. Harper | CISSP RHCT MCSE www.internetsecurityguru.com www.ntsug.org - Snort Users Group "If there is no light at the end of the tunnel, get down there and light the dang thing yourself!"
I agree with all you've said. It's a shame we have not said thanks to Marty and all the rest of the Sourcefire staff. I want to thank all of them for the best IDS product in the market today, and above of all for making it free. And I am very angry with Demarc, because they have come here to the list as the saviours of the Open Source Rules development when *they are* the problem. I won't buy their products, I prefer anyway to pay Sourcefire for their rules. Regards. -- Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Director Tecnico de bgSEC jkerouac () bgsec com bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos http://www.bgsec.com ESPAÑA The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- As a person using snort and helping others use snort for the first time Patrick S. Harper (Mar 05)
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