“Late last year the relationship between a free software
project, Prelude, and a company that hired one of its programmers,
ExaProtect Technology, broke down. In a reaction to what it
perceived as unethical treatment of its development team, the
Prelude project closed its development source repository, not just
to ExaProtect but to the world, in an apparent breach of the spirit
of the GPL and free software ethics. NewsForge investigates this
cautionary tale of a relationship gone wrong.“Prelude is a security program designed to detect and trace
malicious intrusions. It has been under development since
1998…”