RE: questions regarding new plug-in policy

At 09:26 AM 12/13/2004 -0800, Hyland Jeremy J CONT KPWA wrote:
> I am most annoyed because I have seen this trend before. Now you want us to
> register, next year it becomes purely pay for subscription, one year later
> Nessus isn't even supported any more and is replaced by a proprietary
> Tenable product.
>
> Apparently I was mistaken about the number of contributors. I just assumed
> that with 2000+ GPL plug-ins, there must have been quite a few people
> involved for non commercial reasons.

But this is exactly the point. One of the great myths about open source
is that there are armies of contributors to various projects. The truth
is, most projects have small numbers of very active developers with
large numbers of users.

I'm sorry you are annoyed by the changes. I was hoping that Tenable's
involvement with Nessus and the major feature enhancements we've made
to it over the past two years would be appreciated. Tenable has also
added (our estimate) another 20-40,000 Windows users to the Nessus
community with our NeWT scanner. User's are not required to register
for NeWT use either, just the non-GPL plugin feeds.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security






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