On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:38:50 -0600, "Austin Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should we care that this company 'Spam Arrest, LLC' is basically selling > TMDA for $40 a year to end users and it says > "Patent Pending" on their page? I'm not sure about the patent pending part, but I'm pretty sure that there is nothing wrong with using open source software in a commercial venture... in fact, that is part of the hope of the FSF's movement. As long as they don't remove the copyright from the code and then sell THE CODE as their own; that's the major thing that GPL prohibits. If I want host websites commercially, I can (and should) use Apache. If I want to provide spam filtering for a fee, then TMDA is an awesome solution. The software and the service are very different things indeed. I say more power to them! Let's hear it for the spread of a good technology and capitalism in general. I hope they ARE using TMDA and not a proprietary system they have set up. That will fuel the movement and move us all along towards a spam-free net. I bet there are millions of people out there that would benefit from such a service but don't have the connections to set up TMDA on their own mail server. Gre7g. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
