> 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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