First Snort and Nessus, now one of the most important parents in the lineage of Open Source is going closed: the Grateful Dead! Who would have believed it. Barlow says:
You have no idea how sad I am about this. I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it.
What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web. They might as easily put a teaspoon of food coloring in a swimming pool and then tell the pool owner to get it back to them.
It's like finding out that your brother is a child molester. And then, worse, having everyone then assume that you're a child molester too. I've been called a hypocrite in three languages already.
How magnificently counter-productive of them. It's as if the goose who laid the golden egg had decided to commit suicide so that he could get more golden eggs.
This is just the beginning of the backlash, I promise you.
This is worse than the RIAA suing their customers.
Luckily, lots of other bands like YMSB will continue to carry this torch while the GD drummers are sitting on some island licking their thumbs and counting their money. The same thing will hopefully happen when new companies with new and more current ideas fill the spaces left in Open Source security left by the acquistions.