On 14 Mar, Paolo Carballo wrote:
> About anti-virus solutions. Would it be worthwhile to provide a user based
> scanner under linux? For the enterprise, people on the list use email
> scanners for most of the brunt work.
> This is probably the last area of the "old" PC industry that Linux has no
> free implementations of. I wonder if it is just because of the amount of
> work needed to maintain the data files. I thought that Linux users would
> have no need for A/V solutions.
> 

We don't.  It's the windows lusers who live behind the networks we
administrate who need A/V solutions.  So clearly, no Linux hacker is
going to want to develop one and make it free software just for kicks.

> Does anyone know of any other fields Linux has no free programs for?
> 

Hmm...  There's enterprise accounting systems, for one (there appears
to be one, but it's not good for any serious use), a good 3D modeling
system, something like 3D Studio (no, Blender doesn't count, it's not
Free (speech)).  These are all I can think of off the top of my head.

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