Maybe Checkpoint won't get Snort after all

I thought this news was pretty crazy. The FBI & DoD are objecting to CheckPoint's acquisition of SourceFire (which was announced last year), as they don't want security technology such as Snort to be owned by a foreign company. I wonder whether they'll get their way...seems a bit strange when Snort is an Open Source product anyway. Maybe it's the proprietary "Sourcefire" pieces that they don't want to see going offshore.

U.S. Objects to Snort Purchase by Israel-Based Check Point