Summary
Nessus started as a one-man project written over a free weekend. It has since grown to be used at an estimated 85,000 organizations, with hundreds of thousands of users. After three years spent developing Nessus, founder Renaud Deraison converted it into the technical basis for the commercial company Tenable Network Security. Through this transition, Tenable had to handle the open source community's reaction to its decisions about Nessus' future licensing and its functionality.
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