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The article essentially reads as "we payed lots of monies for a mediocre scanner, and then we discovered that the FOSS nmap did everything we needed. So we took nmap and added a little bit of extra, a web interface, and gave it the name Flan Scanner."

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The corporate world is so facepalm sometimes

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> added a little bit of extra, a web interface

Sometimes that's the difference between people using it not using it. The classic rsync and a bunch of scripts vs. Dropbox HN comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

For people new to HN, this is the comment dewey is referring to, I think. 'dhouston' is Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox.

And that's how people miss the opportunity to make a lot of money because they don't understand the needs of corporations.

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