Whole story here

sounds like FUD to me.

Yeah, a lot of FUD it seems. Although it was kinda well argumented if you would compare it to many other FUD-attempts out there.

Thanks to hari_seldon99 I got to read what Novell writes to defend all this FUD.
http://www.novell.com/linux/truth/
Pretty good reading.

That bit about nessus is partially true, but misleading. Community plugins are still free, and a seven day delay is no biggie. They have gone a bit commercial, though.

In the final analysis, if it's open source, then even if the original developers charge for it, there will always be other developers who'll buy it, tweak the code & offer their own versions 4 free. This is allowed by the GPL.

Agreed. Thanks MezzyMeat and hari_seldon99 - that's a great link, and I'd encourage everyone to check it out. As a side comment, what's always interesting to me is that while Microsoft is fond of quoting "superior TCO" figures, the issue of coping with viruses, Trojans, etc, is simply ignored. You know that any Windows sysadmin has to spend a fair amount of time dealing with these things, and yet those costs are never reflected in the TCO. I can guarantee that the cost to Linux shops to deal with SoBig, Sasser, Nimda, etc, etc, etc, was zero, and that the cost to Windows shops was non-zero. I'd be interested in knowing how much of that Windows TCO represents intrusion and security issues -- J.W.