> On Jul 28, 2021, at 6:09 PM, Rick Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 28, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Rick Cooper <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> total disregard for the user base, not so much as a poll or query on the 
>> lists, enjoy your new cutting edge toys
>>  
>> Corporate BS rears it's ugly head again, First snort, then centos and now 
>> clamav.
> 
> I think this is unfair.  This is the feedback we’re getting.  Sounds like we 
> don’t need a poll or a query.  We’re hearing it now.
>  
> Actually the way it was presented was here is what's going to happen and not 
> what would the community think about going to cmake, here are the advantages 
> to the community if we go this way. It wasn't presented as an option and it 
> took a lot of people off guard. It's like someone on the list said if you are 
> using an old stable enterprise version maybe you just need to switch to 
> something more cutting edge like Fedora, which is not stable and shouldn't be 
> used in an enterprise situation. When I upgrade an OS it's a very big deal 
> because I have to template it, use it in production at one of the sites to 
> make sure everything is stable, keep it out of the other upgrade paths (the 
> older OS's) and image it, go to several (100+es each) cities on a Sunday (to 
> be at console and cannot take it down any other day) and then update the site 
> specific pieces, test everything and drive 100+ back. What might be a small 
> thing for some is a real life's mess for many others.
>  
> I didn't mean to be as offensive as it came out but I was pissed because for 
> my mail servers it's going to be a problem, I've built it on a file server 
> (Centos 7) alright but just to get to correct version of cmake built and all 
> the required dependencies was cumbersome at best. 

I don’t think we took it like that, I certainly didn’t.  I think a productive 
and healthy discussion around on the list is a great thing.  

>  
> 
> I also think it’s unfair to think “big bad Cisco” had anything to do with 
> this at all.  ClamAV is beholden to Cisco in very few ways. In that it’s 
> integrated i 
>  nto a few products, other than that, the ClamAV development team has pretty 
> full autonomy.  No one is coming down to Micah and saying "YOU MUST YOU CMAKE 
> YOU PEON DEVELOPER MUHAHAHAHAHA”.   
>  
> That was , in fact, unfair of me. Perhaps the team isn't part of the culture. 
> I have had issue with Cisco for quite some time, really going back to when 
> they bought Linksys because their hardware was over priced and more and more 
> enterprises was realizing the didn't to pay Cisco for a name... rather than 
> simply build a reasonable priced series of equipment (as they do today) they 
> bought a reasonably prices equipment vendor.

Cisco is a huge company. Security is quite different.


> If you have feedback, this is the perfect use of this list to do so, but 
> we’re also all adults, with jobs, with passions, and we can be professional.
> 
> As far as Snort, I think the same logic applies.  The rewrite of Snort 
> started long before Cisco even entered the picture, it started when we were 
> still Sourcefire back in 2011-2012.  I have the engineering slides! 
>  
> I'd have to think about it, I thought the paid sigs over community sigs began 
> with Cisco but maybe it was Sourcefire.

We transitioned to paid sigs in 2003-2004?  Cisco bought Sourcefire in 2013.  
So, yeah, Cisco had nothing to do with it.  However, I run that program as 
well, so I’m very familiar with why we did it, why we continue to do it, and 
what the pros and cons of it.  

> I am sure you are right it's my bad attitude about Cisco, I am waiting for 
> them to purchase ubiquiti next. and the entire IBM Centos mess just turns up 
> my "big company" hackles.

We purchased Meraki.  :) 


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