Sorry to waste space, offtopic here I come, but just had to tell the parent poster, thats
probably the best Sig quote I've seen in a very long time.
Thanks.
loon
Hrm, I know RTFA is a little much for most/. readers, but dang, do we have to do RTFS now too?
Recently its author, Roland Dowdeswell, was interviewed and provided a lot of details, and made a comparison with Linux's Loop-AES, FreeBSD's GBDE, OpenBSD's svnd.
I will call BS on this, Nessus could be open source all day long. I believe they think there is money (lots of it) to be made, and they made the jump. They did indeed leave the covenant. Example, look at Snort, bought out, Marty got paid like a mofo, yet still open source and still free to the end user. I find "rebranding" issues to be a pretty cheap scapegoat for what is in reality "wallet low on cash issues".
Not everyone will avoid anything that isn't free/libre, especially if the quality is good. The free software community brought it upon themselves by not helping out and in the case of the rebranders, for stealing all sources of revenue nessus had when GPL. 100 hour weeks hacking on code don't come for free, you know.
This is a horrible argument. Do you mean to tell me that the Nessus team found every vuln themselves and then coded an exploit to check for such vuln? The "free software community" you speak of actually coded the exploits, and released to the wild (save the full disclosure args for another day) POC's and working code, of which a simple check, MAYBE coded by the Nessus team, will bring in loads of cash to the now closed source product. Lets face it, money talks. I don't even really blame them, I would probably take the money too....but don't give me the "free/open software community never gave back" argument, as until this last 7 days, you don't exactly buy those exploits on ebay...
phpm0nkey said --
"I have no doubt that hardcore PC gamers will shell out the cash for these, regardless of the cost/performance ratio. Once you start paying $500+ for a graphics card, all rational decision making skills are lost."
This is probably the funniest thing I've read all morning...okay, I'll give you all week, its only Wednesday. The sad part is particularly true...heh.
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Sorry to waste space, offtopic here I come, but just had to tell the parent poster, thats probably the best Sig quote I've seen in a very long time. Thanks. loon
Hahahah, funny.... from the link: html> title>Ook!/title> body> Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled. /body> /html>
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doo do doo do doooo do doo doo....welcome to another dimension...the /. zone....
phpm0nkey said -- "I have no doubt that hardcore PC gamers will shell out the cash for these, regardless of the cost/performance ratio. Once you start paying $500+ for a graphics card, all rational decision making skills are lost." This is probably the funniest thing I've read all morning...okay, I'll give you all week, its only Wednesday. The sad part is particularly true...heh.
actually he works for USA, United Space Alliance, who is almost soley contracted out to NASA. So not a true NASA empolyee, but close enough.
OpenBSD transparent (bridged) firewall is the best, works like a champ, and once set up, there is no interface to *hack*...only a console cable...
Really shameful... first post too, also shameful