On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:40:47PM -0500, Thomas Reinke wrote:
> 1. Yes, it would be a pain. And over time, Linux is becoming
> more and more accepted. But, please realize that you ARE
> limiting your user community, and the acceptance of the tool
> as a result, by dictating Linux only. This is not to say
> it is the wrong decision to limit it to Linux, just that there
> are ramifications.
a) Nessus is not Linux only. It also run on Solaris, FreeBSD and a
handful of other Unix-like operating systems. Saying that Nessus implies
"just" Linux is a gross misunderstanding.
b) Believe it or not, I don't make money by writing Nessus. Having more
users won't give me instant fame or wealth, but only problems and more
stupid people emailing directly to me to ask for problems resolution and
all. I can live without that.
c) I write Nessus because that's fun. Developing under Win32 is not fun.
Not being a masochist, I don't understand why I'd torture myself to
support an operating system I don't use nor that I like. I'm not
anti-microsoft nor do I feel the need to push people to use Unix-like
systems, I just want continue to have fun working on Nessus.
d) Thanks for your super-duper intelligent analysis of the market. I
think we all know that if Nessus ran under Win32, there would be more
users. Thanks for stating the obvious.
-- Renaud
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