RE: Sourcefire Acquired by Check Point Software

["Kyle Quest" <Kyle.Quest () networkengines com>]

> It's part of it anyway.
> There's a potential gain from GPL license through external contributions
> to the engine would have been a real benefit that could have balance the
> competition argument. But, if there's no real contribution, there's no
> benefit for Tenable having Nessus GPLed. There's a full bunch of project
> GPLed running without benefit.
> But now, if GPL license arms their business (competition argument), they
> only get loss out of it. As sad as it can be for users, this is imho a
> good reason for them to leave GPL.

Totally agree. That's kinda what I was talking about in one of the previous
emails. The Nessus statement can be paraphrased into this:
We don't get any benefit from open source (aka nobody contributes),
but we feel the pains of open sources (aka other companies using code).
I totally understand them. It's just silly to blame GPL for it...