Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project
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| Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired
| ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are
| used in the products of a number of other vendors.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070817/tc_infoworld/91102
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Open-source companies to be acquired by proprietary vendors?
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| Tim believes that open source, at least as defined by open-source licensing,
| has a short shelf life that will be consumed by Web 2.0 (i.e., Web companies
| hijacking open-source software to deliver proprietary Web services) or by
| traditional proprietary software vendors.
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| In other words, why don't I just give up, sell out, and go home? I guess I
| would if I thought that Tim were right. He's not, not in this instance.
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| There's something more fundamental going on here than "Proprietary software
| meets open source. Proprietary software decides to commandeer open source.
| Open source proves to be a nice lapdog to proprietary software." I actually
| believe that open source, not proprietary software, is the natural state of
| the industry, and that Tim's proprietary world is anomalous.
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