What made Ethereal what it is?
The name, or the code?
Does it really matter what it's called?
Would it have been less popular if it would have been
originally called "Xyzzy" or "Podunk"?
Who cares WHAT it's called as long as it still does
what it did?
The only constant thing in life is change.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
(A thing is what it is, not what it is called.)
John
--- Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Easiest answer: quote from Bejtlich's web site
> "Sometimes you have to
> make the best of a bad situation, with no warning.
> Good-bye Ethereal,
> hello Wireshark. Gerald Combs, original author and
> primary Ethereal
> developer, left his job at Network Integration
> Services, Inc. and
> joined CACE Technologies. Unfortunately, NIS owns
> the Ethereal
> trademark, and Mr. Combs wasn't able to take it with
> him. He also lost
> administrative rights to the servers hosting
> Ethereal.com, so he can't
> post news of the name change there. So, nearly eight
> years after the
> first public release, Ethereal is dead. Long live
> Wireshark --
> especially with 1.0 expected very soon."
>
> On 6/7/06, Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:06 -0500, Gerald Combs
> wrote:
> > > I recently accepted a job with CACE
> Technologies, best known for
> > > WinPcap. This means that I get to work with
> Loris Degioanni and
> > > Gianluca Varenni, and that my wife and I get to
> raise our daughter in
> > > Davis, CA.
> >
> > > The move also means a major change for the
> project. We're continuing
> > > development under the name "Wireshark", at
> http://www.wireshark.org/ .
> > > The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN
> repository, buildbot, and
> > > other resources are already in place. All
> recent source code
> > > submissions have been checked into the new
> repository, and automated
> > > builds are available at
> http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/ .
> >
> > A bit more explanation on the what, why, and who
> made that decision
> > might be helpful understanding this move.
> >
> > - Erwin
> >
> >
> >
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Why is it - when you look in a mirror,
everything is reversed left-to-right,
but not up-and-down?
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