My Progress: AntiVirus Software Roundup

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 9:58 pm, Gerry Doris wrote:

> Just a thought here for those who are running ClamAV on large commercial
> servers...
>
> Perhaps a donation to the ClamAV folks in lieu of a license fee might be
> appropriate.  They provide a reasonable product at an unreasonable
> price...free!

I must say that is my attitude towards several Open Source software projects.
Once I have a nice successful company delivering products based on
MailScanner, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, Squid, Samba, Apache.... I would like to
give a donation back to the developers for the effort they've put in.

I believe the Open Source philosophy should remain exactly as it is, and such
donations should be completely voluntary, however I think anyone who is
running a business which is either making money as a result of Open Source
software, or which is saving money as a result of not using alternative
proprietary software, should consider making such donations, simply in order
to encourage the future development of these and other projects under the
Open Source system.

I really do believe that Open Source has many advantages over proprietary
software, and it is worth paying for.

Just my 2p (if you take my point)

Regards,

Antony.

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Anyone that's normal doesn't really achieve much.

 - Mark Blair, Australian rocket engineer