> Please note: This is NOT an official statement by the SA team. This is > a personal comment by a long-time reader of c't magazine, sad to see > lack of understanding and quality dropping yet again.
for what it's worth, I _am_ in a position to make official statements;) > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:12 +0200, Stephan Ehrmann, c't wrote: > > (Bitte nach unten scrollen, um die deutsche Version dieser Mail zu lesen.) > > Feel free to contact me off-list, if you need a German translation. > > > Dear Software publisher, > > > > this year is the 25th anniversary of c't magazine. We celebrate this > > jubilee throughout the year with various activities like a programming > > competition. Our anniversary issue on Monday, the 10th of November, will > > come with a very special edition of our c't software collection. For the > > first time, this covermount DVD comprises only full or special versions, > > no freeware. > > Open Source and Free Software are "full versions" by nature. Alas, they > qualify for the fuzzy and broad term "freeware" also. So you just > stated, that you're not going to include Open Source on that DVD? And by > conclusion you're not going to include this project either? I would appreciate clarification on this point, also. SpamAssassin is an open source project as Karsten notes, and as such qualifies as "freeware" -- and additionally does not require registration in any way. Since SpamAssassin already appears in Heise's directory: http://www.heise.de/software/download/spamassassin/15370 and I think in c't covermounts in the past, I presume this omission unintentional... > > We would like to conclude this mail with one request: Please keep the > > contents of this mail confidential. > > Congrats, dude, you blew it. You just posted this to a publicly > accessible and archived mailing list. Confidential, eh? Unfortunately, that is a good point ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the correct address for confidential contact. --j.
