NewsForge: Check Point’s Acquisition of Snort’s Parent Has Some Users Worried

“Check Point Software Technologies and Sourcefire have a history
of working together, but last week’s announcement that Check Point
plans to acquire Sourcefire has some open source users a bit
nervous.

“Check Point, pending regulatory approval, is expected to
complete the Sourcefire acquisition early in the first quarter of
2006 for about $225 million, according to the company’s Manager of
Technical Marketing Andrew Singer…”

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