From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 17:00:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D41F16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:00:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD12B43D45 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:00:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j9BH2hb17706; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Dinesh Nair" Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:00:07 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <434B6B11.8010009@alphaque.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Nessus no longer open source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:00:17 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Dinesh Nair [mailto:dinesh@alphaque.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:35 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Nessus no longer open source > > > >On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: >> would have been prevented from using it. Almost certainly >the research >> in the >> vulnerabilities that go into Nessus 3 will trickle into Nessus 2 >> eventually. So > >however given that the nessus author(s) said that one main >reason was the >lack of contributions from the community, who is going to maintain the >nessus 2 codebase and plugins ? > The authors, of course. Stand the problem on it's head. Where are the Nessus people going to find customers for Nessus 3? From Nessus 2 users. If they let the Nessus 2 codebase go to pot then people will stop using it, and they lose a valuable source of sales leads. Talk to the marketing manager of whatever company you work for and ask them how much it costs to market and advertise your product. The Nessus company has a perfect advertising venue available with Nessus 2 it is cheaper for them to keep it maintained in order to get customers than to try to launch and ad campaign. The only problem right now that Nessus has is that Nessus 3 is new, so it's not yet differentiated enough from Nessus 2 for people to be convinced to pay the money for it. But as time passes and they keep working on Nessus 3 that will change. Look at the Sendmail Inc. model, it is -very- successful. Ted