Originally posted here by hypronix
As previously discussed on IRC this comes as a natural reaction once something is announced to become closed-source. Let's hope the development of GNessUs will be steady and the tool itself will be on par with the original from which it forked itself.
I think I missed (atleast parts of) that irc discussion, but I agree with you.

Anyway, for the people that are interested in additionals but are not fd subscribers:
initial post: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/f...er/037863.html
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Nessus has been open source for a long time. Despite that, the majority of
contributions have come from a very small amount of people. Even with
plugins, some 95% (i think) were written by the Nessus team, not outside
contributors.
Fyodor's post might be of interest also .
"Nessus closes source => How to help open source projects"
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-hacke...-Dec/0000.html