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stock at stokkie

Jul 20, 2012, 6:42 PM

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ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ?

Hi,

Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?

"News

ClamAV's Wiki
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clamav/~3/1tYQrHcgJNE/clamavs-wiki.html/
July 5th, 2012 Posted by -

The ClamAv Wiki is currently down. It hadn't been updated for some
time (several years!) and it was time to covert it into something
more useable.

We are currently converting the relevant documentation that was in
the Wiki into something more useful and it will be forthcoming."

Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org stock [at] stokkie

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alvarnell at mac

Jul 20, 2012, 6:58 PM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On 7/20/12 6:42 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:

> Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?
>
> "News
>
> ClamAV's Wiki
> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clamav/~3/1tYQrHcgJNE/clamavs-wiki.html/
> July 5th, 2012 Posted by -
>
> The ClamAv Wiki is currently down. It hadn't been updated for some
> time (several years!) and it was time to covert it into something
> more useable.
>
> We are currently converting the relevant documentation that was in
> the Wiki into something more useful and it will be forthcoming."
>
No, but it has been taken over by SourcFire and many from the original
development team have moved on to other projects. That has given ClamAV
additional resources to accomplish projects such as this as well as imposed
the inevitable changes that come with a larger organization. We'll all just
have to wait and see how all this works out down the road.

-Al-

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Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA

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stock at stokkie

Jul 20, 2012, 7:19 PM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Al Varnell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:44 -0700
> From: Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac>
> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ?
>
> On 7/20/12 6:42 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>
>> Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?
>
> No, but it has been taken over by SourcFire and many from the original
> development team have moved on to other projects. That has given ClamAV
> additional resources to accomplish projects such as this as well as imposed
> the inevitable changes that come with a larger organization. We'll all just
> have to wait and see how all this works out down the road.

The acquisition of ClamAV by Sourcefire was already in August of 2007.

Sourcefire Buys ClamAV
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2173128,00.asp

Robert
--
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org stock [at] stokkie

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Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

stock at stokkie

Jul 20, 2012, 7:48 PM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Al Varnell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:44 -0700
> From: Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac>
> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ?
>
> On 7/20/12 6:42 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>
>> Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?
>>
>> "News
>>
>> ClamAV's Wiki
>> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Clamav/~3/1tYQrHcgJNE/clamavs-wiki.html/
>> July 5th, 2012 Posted by -
>>
>> The ClamAv Wiki is currently down. It hadn't been updated for some
>> time (several years!) and it was time to covert it into something
>> more useable.
>>
>> We are currently converting the relevant documentation that was in
>> the Wiki into something more useful and it will be forthcoming."
>>
> No, but it has been taken over by SourcFire and many from the original
> development team have moved on to other projects. That has given ClamAV
> additional resources to accomplish projects such as this as well as imposed
> the inevitable changes that come with a larger organization. We'll all just
> have to wait and see how all this works out down the road.

Seems Sourcefire is in trouble as CEO John Burris recently had to take
a medical leave for colon-cancer treatment, which is a sad thing.
Lets hope he will recover.

> -Al-
>
> --
> Al Varnell
> Mountain View, CA

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Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
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alvarnell at mac

Jul 20, 2012, 9:11 PM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On 7/20/12 7:19 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Al Varnell wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:44 -0700
>> From: Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac>
>> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
>> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
>> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ?
>>
>> On 7/20/12 6:42 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>>
>>> Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?
>>
>> No, but it has been taken over by SourcFire and many from the original
>> development team have moved on to other projects. That has given ClamAV
>> additional resources to accomplish projects such as this as well as imposed
>> the inevitable changes that come with a larger organization. We'll all just
>> have to wait and see how all this works out down the road.
>
> The acquisition of ClamAV by Sourcefire was already in August of 2007.
>
> Sourcefire Buys ClamAV
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2173128,00.asp
>
Yes, but the departure of the development team and reorganization occurred
less than a month ago
<http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20120622.185612.d5da74af.en.html>

-Al-

--
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA

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Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

jesler at sourcefire

Jul 24, 2012, 2:23 PM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac> wrote:
> On 7/20/12 7:19 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Al Varnell wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:44 -0700
>>> From: Al Varnell <alvarnell [at] mac>
>>> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
>>> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users [at] lists>
>>> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ?
>>>
>>> On 7/20/12 6:42 PM, "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock [at] stokkie> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has ClamaAV been taken-over by the Men in Black from google Inc. ?
>>>
>>> No, but it has been taken over by SourcFire and many from the original
>>> development team have moved on to other projects. That has given ClamAV
>>> additional resources to accomplish projects such as this as well as imposed
>>> the inevitable changes that come with a larger organization. We'll all just
>>> have to wait and see how all this works out down the road.
>>
>> The acquisition of ClamAV by Sourcefire was already in August of 2007.
>>
>> Sourcefire Buys ClamAV
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2173128,00.asp
>>
> Yes, but the departure of the development team and reorganization occurred
> less than a month ago
> <http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20120622.185612.d5da74af.en.html>

As I said in the blog post, the Wiki hadn't been updated in several years. So we took it down.

We are going to be placing the documentation that was in the Wiki in the ACTUAL documentation that comes with the software. We're working on it!

I'll announce via the blog when everything is 'back to normal'

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire
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francois.rolland at alma

Jul 25, 2012, 7:20 AM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:23, Joel Esler <jesler [at] sourcefire> wrote :
>As I said in the blog post, the Wiki hadn't been updated in several years. So we took it down.
>
>We are going to be placing the documentation that was in the Wiki in the ACTUAL documentation that comes with the software. We're working on it!
>
>I'll announce via the blog when everything is 'back to normal'

Hello Joel

The problem with your approach is that the documentation that is currently delivered with the latest release of clamav (0.97.5) refers only to that wiki. For example, the UPGRADE file contains only the following line:
http://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeInstructions

Would not it be more reasonable to leave this wiki alive until a new version of clamav software is available which includes this documentation?

Francois
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jesler at sourcefire

Jul 25, 2012, 7:47 AM

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Re: ClamaAV take over by Google Inc. ? [In reply to]

On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Francois Rolland <francois.rolland [at] alma> wrote:

> The problem with your approach is that the documentation that is currently delivered with the latest release of clamav (0.97.5) refers only to that wiki. For example, the UPGRADE file contains only the following line:
> http://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeInstructions

Understood. I have these instructions and will put them out somewhere in the meantime. I'm on my iPad about to get on a plane to Vegas right now though.
>
> Would not it be more reasonable to leave this wiki alive until a new version of clamav software is available which includes this documentation?

Unfortunately no. There were other issues with the wiki, and we had to take it down. The upgrade documentation, however, had very little in it.

If basically said, if you are running an rpm... Upgrade the rpm.
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