Exactly my point. Tenable did that with nessus and we all are now supporting openVAS. I think Marty and the gang were smart- very smart - to keep snort open source even w/ sourcefire commercial side. They actually built more support for the company in the business that way.

So, uncle sam just stays with the opensource version if CP closes the source and the community forks it. In fact, I would really like to see us head back to the early days of NSF, DOD support of public software projects with some serious $$$ to universities etc. Maybe this is an opportunity to start (or increase??)

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