deersoft bought by NAI

[Paul Welsh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Bird" <dbird at SGHMS.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: 07 January 2003 18:12
Subject: deersoft bought by NAI


> Deersoft, the producers of SpamAssain for windows (out look
> etc) have been bought out by NAI (see:
> http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/other/jump/deersoft.asp). This has caused
quite
> a stir on the SATalk mailing lists, with it looking likely 3 of the
mail
> developers will be stopping their contributions.
>

Doesn't look promising, does it?  To quote from
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/other/jump/deersoft-faq.asp:

"The SpamAssassin open source project will continue and will be
maintained by its current authors including Justin Mason and Craig
Hughes."

Sounds good.  However, it goes on to say in the next sentence:

"Mason and Hughes will be employees of Network Associates and will
devote their energies to the development of the proprietary McAfee
product."

Er, so if Mason and Hughes will put all their energies into the McAfee
product how on earth are they going to maintain the open source project?
What double speak!

The icing on the cake?  Network Associates now own the SpamAssassin
name.