Hopefully my original point is not getting lost in this rather irrelevant
minutia. However, if I were leading a development team that was going to
integrate these spam hashing services into existing code running in a
Windows environment, I would not attempt to convert/port from any other
existing language (unless I had experts in both languages), I would simply
start with the existing specifications and develop original code (in my
programming language of choice) to those specs.
Anyway, this is my final 2 cents on this person's (mine) personal opinion...
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Landry" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude 4.3 - Commtouch trial ?
Razor has always been "free", even during that very short timeframe
of like 6 months where they were considering charging for usage if
you were using Razor in a revenue based model. However, as you
probably know, that was very short lived and quickly reverted back
to just plain "free".
But even as a "permanently free" product, it's distributed as a bunch
of Perl modules -- to C++ coder, there's a HUGE difference between
that and "Static link this lib and pass it a filename." I've been
through the same choices myself, and, yes, I have chosen commercial
modules over free ones written in/for other languages and for
different audiences.
A development effort is a development effort. If Declude can
integrate CommTouch into JunkMail, or URIBL checks, then I am
confident that could just as well integrate any or all of the spam
hashing services as well.
Just as well? Well, I don't think you've proven that. CommTouch is
made to be integrated into commercial apps. I don't think it's an
if-then situation at all.
But maybe you know more about Declude's development staff and their
capabilities than I do, so I'll admit that I could be wrong...
I know what Declude's done in the past, plus the difficulty of
converting between languages, dealing with dubious
open-and-closed-source-in-the-same-product distribution scenarios...
that they went with this very "positioned" product doesn't surprise me
at all.
--Sandy
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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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