Re: [Nessus-announce] Nessus Roadmap / Nessus 3.0.0rc1 testers wa nted

[Knut Hellebø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

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> Hi List,
> I would invite you people to consider numbers, and leave away emotions.
> 1. We are getting two Nessus scanners. It that good or bad?
> I believe that is good. Even the second one non-GPL.
> 2. Do we need old Nessus constantly changing with two month between versions? It's been a headache for me (keeping it connected to my DB extension for instance). The most important is a stable version. It is very likely that Tenable will keep debugging GPL version, because it costs much less than developing new.
> 3. How much time did we put in GPL version? Considering the list activity, we invested mostly in testing. Say we saved 10% or less of Renaud time. I would not consider this as major contribution. If the community has some guts, lets go ahead and slowly develop GPL Nessus. I can even contribute my NessusDBX DB extension.
> 4. We got free Nessus. For the majority of us the process will be the same: install, use, debug, use again. I bet may be only one off one hundred ever looked at the code. I did sometimes on plugins, but not the engine. So, with free-Nessus we got more options, so I would not complain.
> 5. The worse case scenario is if Tenable makes Free-Nessus not-so-free in a couple of years. Is this possible? Of course. However, if out community is capable of the development of GPL-Nessus, we have a plenty of time. Otherwise do not complain.
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> Mikhail Utin
> AIS Security
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 401-832-6584

I agree...I cannot see anything wrong in trying to earn money on a darn 
fine product either...
I am really quite surprised and pleased with that the commersialisation 
process didn't start earlier..
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