One could argue that the whole point of open source it to use the community to build and test your app.. then sell the product. Deersoft did it.. Cloudmark did it... the only difference, Deersoft sold the company.
I understand that the developers need to eat and what not... but I feel like I was just f'ed and didn't get a reach around.. Granted.. I did no development what so ever, just used this fine app. I will continue to do so until NAI pulls a PGP on SA. I just don't have a good feeling about this... I wish it the best... but I seem to have lost my happy thought. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SATalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Deersoft acquisition (thumbs down) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SATalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Deersoft acquisition (thumbs down) > I apologize for my rant being so long, and if I am wrong in my > assessments (and I hope I am for the sake of this project), please let me > know. I have watched SA grow, and I would like to see the tradition > continue. I agree with everything you said in your rant. :) SA could have become a great, world-wide effort to stop spam; then someone dangles a few green carrots in front of someone's eyes, and wham, we're collectively screwed again. :( If you invite people, as a collective effort, to better the product together with you, having them believe they are working on a community project, then you should afford them, if not a legal, then certainly the moral courtesy to inform them that you plan to cash in on the project, subsequently, have the decency to consult them on it. That leaves them the choice to divert their time and energy to true Open Source projects. - Mark ------------------------------------------------------- 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
