Yes and no. If there are patents involved, McAfee can excercise them to stop entirely the distribution of anything but their proprietary internal code.

Ross Vandegrift wrote:

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:36:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I see this acquisition as a sellout. Plain and simple. And this comes from a guy who has seen his fair share of business deals, and been approached to "sell out" as well. Why do I say this? Because Mcaffee does not embrace the open source model.

Whoa dude.... calm down there. It's only a sellout if things go south.
There's no immediate reason to expect things to get worse for the
community. SA is GPL dual-licensed - it *can't* really be sold out. If
NAI takes it somewhere you don't like, give them the finger and fork it.
Free software is a wonderful thing.

Sheesh - at least give them a chance!




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