Open source and bloggers remorse
As I mentioned in my article around open source yesterday, Ryan Russell made an excellent point in a comment to Thomas Ptacek's tirade against us. He spoke about open source remorse. He means that some open source based commercial companies were only too happy to "use" the community to get where they are, but then wish to stifle competition using their products and change their licenses. Ryan has done a full article on it on his blog and I highly recommend you read it.
I wanted to mention two things. One in talking about remorse, is my own bloggers remorse. One of the nice things about blogging is I have made lots of friends in the blogosphere. One of those people is Thomas Ptacek. It bothers me that my post yesterday was aimed at him and perhaps more harsh then I intended. I guess it was a case of him constantly harping on StillSecure and I, so I felt like I had to defend myself. Kind of like, if I didn't stand up for myself, the bullying was going to continue. I have traded some emails with Thomas and know he is upset that I was so personal. Sorry if you all got in the middle of that and I really have no hard feelings regarding Thomas.
On the issue Ryan raises, we do not use Snort in Cobia. If anyone wants to do a port of Snort to Cobia you are free to. Under our community license, you are perfectly entitled to do so and Snort would still obviously be under GPL. We don't steal anybodys code here and try hard to play by the rules.
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