Subj : Grisoft changes $$$ (AVG)
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 06:06 pm

Hello CHARLES,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Saturday September 10 2005 at 15:00,
    CHARLES ANGELICH [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: Grisoft changes $$$ (AVG)

 CA>>> It looks like Grisoft is in for some changes:

 CA>>> http://www.grisoft.com/doc/314/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

 CA>>> -----------------------------------------------------------

 CA>>> "Grisoft announces investment by Intel Capital and Enterprise
 CA>>> Investors"

 GM>> [snip]

 CA>>> The $52 million investment in Grisoft by Enterprise Investors and
 CA>>> Intel Capital will result in a new ownership structure of the
 CA>>> company ... the two new investors will own a 65% stake in Grisoft.

 GM>> Sighhhhhh.

 GM>> And I was so worried about Symantec and Microsoft gobbling up
 GM>> companies, that I completely forgot about Intel...

 CA> Intel only put in $16 million, Enterprise Investors put in the
 CA> balance of the $52 million.

"only put in $16 million"?  When was the last time they were audited?

 GM>> Any word(s) about the "free" version of AVG?

 CA> Nothing official that I know of as yet, no. Everyone thought DRDOS
 CA> would continue the free legacy versions after it was purchased but
 CA> that turned out to be false hope.

Digital Research *HAS* always been in the business of business (making
money), so their refusal to continue the free legacy versions did not
surprise me...

 CA> There is the somewhat bloated/slow AVAST and an attempt at creating an
 CA> opensource virus scanner called EWIDO?

I'm already running "the somewhat bloated/slow AVAST" on the 'other' box
due to licensing constraints...  I will Google for EWIDO and see what I can
come up with...

           Thanks ... Gerald

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