Re: [Emerging-Sigs] GPL rules - who maintains them? Nobody?

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

On 3/19/2011 8:58 PM, Martin Roesch wrote:
> On Saturday, March 19, 2011, Matthew Jonkman 
> <jonkman () emergingthreatspro com> wrote:
>
> > Let this be VERY clear: I am not impuning the character or
> > community spirit of Joel or Jason or any of the VRT guys. You're
> > all great guys and I enjoy working with you all. But you work for
> > the largest security vendor in the space who's only goal is to get
> > more market share to jack up the share price while everyone
> > prepares to cash out, or get yourselves bought by one of the big
> > 5.

Errr... I do have to speak up here. I've worked with Snort (never for!)
for over a decade, before Marty even had a team let alone a company.
He's a nerd like the rest of us. But there comes a time when your baby
grows up and it is a business - and there is a point where you have to
do things different.

Suricata is funded by all of us US taxpayers, so the mentality is
different. You could ship a product that does nothing and still get paid
- though your grant would be yanked after some bureaucrat notices in a
few years :-)

> Seriously?  Our only goal is share price and cashing out?  Our goal
> is to build great products that solve hard problems to give our
> customers the capability to defend themselves effectively. There's a
> ton of technology under the covers that makes all that happen (Snort,
> RNA, RUA, Immunet, Razorback,etc).

I will say, and I think this is obvious, Marty values his team first.
Then the technology (which is a product of him and his team) and then
making mad bank. The order of this chain is vital. The last can't happen
if they deliver crap.

> We don't make any claims to being the company with the largest
> market share in the industry but neither does Porsche.  I'm fine with
> being a minority in the market if I'm the best.

My only complaint would be the cost of those damn boxes. But I will shut
my trap because a small company named HP/ArcSight signs my checks and
they seem to make with a much higher profit margin :-/

Randy


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