Tenable Network Security, the company behind the Nessus open-source project, has updated its business model [PDF] to offer a for-fee subscription to its vulnerability plugin updates for commercial users.

This sounds a bit like Trolltech’s early efforts to get commercial users to pay while leaving non-commercial users free to use the software without paying, but it’s not. Trolltech’s maligned model wasn’t open source, as it discriminates against a class of user (the commercial user).

In Tenable’s case, the code is free, but the information that flows through it (Up-to-date vulnerability information, for example) is not:

… Source:The Open Road

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Tenable Network Security, the company behind the Nessus open-source project, has updated its business model [PDF] to offer a for-fee subscription to its vulnerability plugin updates for commercial users.

This sounds a bit like Trolltech’s early efforts to get commercial users to pay while leaving non-commercial users free to use the software without paying, but it’s not. Trolltech’s maligned model wasn’t open source, as it discriminates against a class of user (the commercial user).

In Tenable’s case, the code is free, but the information that flows through it (Up-to-date vulnerability information, for example) is not:

… Source:The Open Road

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I met with an executive at a Fortune 50 financial services customer of Alfresco’s yesterday. As we talked about his plans to replace various (proprietary) software products with open source and SaaS products, he made the following interesting comment:

We’re going with open source and Web 2.0-type …

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Microsoft must spend some days gazing around in a stupor. The company continues to print money yet its most current product launch of Vista fell on deaf ears. Microsoft of course wants money, but it also wants to be thought of as a leader in the software world, and with …

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