Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS

Re:Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS by kyrra on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:36AM (#9806032)

I was part of a company purchased by Cisco 2 years ago that has an open source component (Snort[0]). Cisco is continuing to invest in the open source product since it acquired Sourcefire. The big things being Snort 3.0 [1] (rewrite to allow multi-threading inside a single process), and OpenAppId[2] (application detection using Lua). These are things they could have kept internal but they continued to invest in the open source version. I think Cisco realizes that giving some stuff away with opensource helps build confidence with the tech community, it would be stupid for them to kill off these kinds of products and services.

[0] https://snort.org/

[1] https://snort.org/snort3

[2] http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1354502

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Re:Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire OpenDNS by nateabele on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:34PM (#9808259)

That's promising, and I'm glad to hear it. And, while it's certainly prudent of them, they seem like an outlier in that regard.

To me the discussion is more about the principle: we're relying on Cisco's (or whoever else's) benevolence (and/or competence).

Without writing an essay on the stakeholder theory of value, I just want to say that it'd sure be nice if the users of a service were regarded in some way that's more formal than an FAQ & reassurances.

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