Subj : Re: Grisoft changes $$$ (AVG)
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 09:21 pm

-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to GERALD MILLER <=-

 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...

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

Is the implication that the free version could still be legally distributed on 
other people's servers?

 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...

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

There's also the open source Clam-AV project...
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