Sourcefire aquires ClamAV
Posted on September 22, 2007 by Ben Cecka
Having been a longtime supporter of the ClamAV project, I was interested to see the headline, Open Source Antivirus: ClamAV project sold to Sourcefire. ClamWin is actually the product that I’ve used extensively in the past. Our new self-service kiosk project at work is running this and doing beautifully through the test period.
The group was spawned by the creator of Snort, which is yet another security product that I’ll be utilizing for some new compliance testing that we have to undergo.
This shift of ownership really shows that open source software has value; whether it is freely available or not. In my opinion, ClamAV knocks the socks off of any commercially available anti-virus product. Yes, it lacks a few features, but when combined with other security techniques, it has served us very well in the corporate world.
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Just a clarification. Sourcefire was started by the creator of Snort. Snort was not “acquired” by Sourcefire.
Thanks Jason! I edited the post and appreciate the fact check.
Today I happened to read your post, and I think my headline worths the whole post. As a matter of fact what’s happened is that the most visible and active developers involved with the project stayed united, and they eventually sold the project.
On the contrary within WURFL, another OS project heavily based on micro-contributions, the two main developers took different routes.
United we stand could greatly be also an open source motto..