[ale] Sourcefire acquires ClamAV

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 11:49 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> It is by intention that I mention Snort. Sourcefire deliberately
> ages new signatures by a week unless you pay LOTS of money to them
> to get them immediately.

Interesting.  I did not know that.

> I then had a dialog with Sourcefire's high muckety muck about license
> fees for my small company to use for a client's single office of about
> 50 people.  They wanted as much money as for General Motors to license one
> their many-thousand-people sites.  If I wanted it for two small clients,
> I'd have to pay the same huge fee for each.  Despite my trying to get
> them to be reasonable, they would not.
> 
> I use ClamAV for a buncha clients.  I don't mind reasonable license
> fees.  However, if Sourcefire is going to take the work of volunteers
> and then charge ME lots of money to get that work, that goes against
> the Open Source principal.

The volunteers are writing sigs now?  I thought the paid staff wrote
sigs (anybody can write sigs, but only a handful really do it), and the
volunteers worked on the software.

-Jim P.