Subj : Grisoft changes $$$ (AVG)
To   : GERALD MILLER
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 04:09 pm

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Hello Gerald - 

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

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

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

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

GM>>> [snip] 

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

GM>>> Sighhhhhh. 

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

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

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

I was smiling when I saw that I had put "only" there. I knew
someone would notice the "only". :-) 

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

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

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

A bit more complicated than that. Digital sold DRDOS to Caldera
who spun it off to Lineo who eventually sold it to
DeviceLogics, Inc. who has shut down the FTP server where the
'free' version of DRDOS was located. 

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

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

EWIDO wasn't finished when I checked on it some time ago. 

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