Re: [Clamav-users] As soon as Sourcefire starts charging for viru s updates,

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:26 -0500, Bryan Johns wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@buc.com> wrote:

> > I'm not worried about ClamAV being acquired. At the moment, everyone is
> > saying that there are no plans to change anything. As long as that
> > remains the case, the only difference is that there is now some money
> > behind the project. If Sourcefire decides to start charging for updates
> > some time in the future, I will re-evaluate my usage of ClamAV. Until
> > then, I see no reason to worry about it.
>
> Even then, there's already been mention in this thread about forking
> off an open version and/or the existence of third-party virus db
> repositories. ClamAV appears to enjoy a great deal of community
> support in the form of patches, bug fixes, and virus submissions.
>
> SourceFire would be foolish, in my opinion, to throw that away. If I
> were part of their decision making process I'd recommend keeping it
> like it is and rolling out an "enterprise" version with an actual help
> desk for paying customers. It would also be stupid, IMHO, for the
> community to turn away from ClamAV while a free version with free
> virus updates were still available just out of anger because an
> eeeeeeevil corporation bought it and tried to make some $$$.

Amen.

  guenther

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