On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:40, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> Due to the recent aquisition of DeerSoft by NAI, a competitor of ours, I > MS> have to quit working on this project. I'll still watch the mailing > MS> lists, but I won't be able to make any contributions due to this > > This is indeed a bummer, but I just have to wonder why this event > really changes much. You were giving your code to an open source > project that *anyone* could use (abiding by the license, of course). > Just because NAI now has essentially hired two of the major > developers, how does it change their ability to use the open source > code?
It doesn't. If we had found out that they were using it before aquiring DeerSoft then I would have questioned my own contributions then. Being bought by NAI doesn't change being able to use the code, but it changes the situation (from "could" into "will"). Nothing is the end of the world, and maybe tomorrow things will look a whole lot different, but for now I have to go into read-only mode. If we were a public company things would be even worse (we'd have to justify that to shareholders). It does make me wish I could be a fly on the wall in a NAI shareholder meeting after this: "So how come you're funding development of a project that our competitors use, but pay us nothing for". Anyway, lets not overreact to me leaving the project. I barely do any CVS checkins these days - the lions share of the work is done by Dan Quinlan, Justin and Theo these days. My leaving the project is just a drop in the ocean. Matt. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
