On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:21:07AM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Due to the recent aquisition of DeerSoft by NAI, a competitor of ours, I > have to quit working on this project. I'll still watch the mailing > lists, but I won't be able to make any contributions due to this > conflict of interest. I feel really gutted about this, since I'm very > committed to open source (as people who know my other Perl work know), > but I've never had something conflict with my job in this way, and so I > have to face reality - this company just isn't going to let me give code > away to a competitor.
I see your position, and I'm quite disappointed at where the project seems to be headed. > So I say goodbye - so long and thanks for all the fish. I hope you stay in touch with us! Even if you can't do any coding, we still will value your opinion in the form of suggestions or even moral support :-) > SA3 is a little more complex, since it's code I was working on alone. > But sadly since this buyout happened before I could merge the code back > into the main SA branch (and before SA2.50, after which I was going to > do the merge) someone is going to have to take up the bat for SA3, or > see it languish and die (though it will probably live on in a > proprietary form here at MessageLabs). > Luckily the code in CVS is the latest - I didn't really get chance to > work on it over the holidays. Plus the code works - the only things left > to do are integrate it back into spamassassin and spamd scripts, and do > lots of cleanup, and re-merge all the rule changes from SA2.x. I really hope we see this; hopefully someone will step up to the plate. I was looking forward to SA3. -- Duncan Findlay ------------------------------------------------------- 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
