Re: [SAtalk] Deersoft acquisition

2003-01-06 Thread Jeff Morton
Which brings me to a question... what exactly did they purchase? If they purchased Deersoft, does that give them the right to enforce the trademark and prevent the open source Unix style SpamAssassin product from using that name? Do they hold patents that could shut down the open source SA pr

Re: [SAtalk] Deersoft acquisition (thumbs down)

2003-01-07 Thread Jeff Morton
Yes and no. If there are patents involved, McAfee can excercise them to stop entirely the distribution of anything but their proprietary internal code. Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:36:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see this acquisition as a sellout. Plain and si