Announcing the new FSL MailScanner Beta yum repository

[Jason Ede]

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field [MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 21 September 2008 17:57
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Announcing the new FSL MailScanner Beta yum repository

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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> Julian Field wrote:
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>> This is a new Yum repository for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64 only.  It will
>> always contain the latest MailScanner beta (4.72.2 at the time of
>> writing) along with SpamAssassin (plus DCC, Razor, DKIM, SPF, IP-Country
>> and Rule2XS plug-ins), ClamAV and all Perl module dependencies.
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> Much as I appreciate the work you put in to this there is a thing I find
> less apealing.
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> If this is "your" repository and you start to charge money then it
> should not depend on free repositories like the way you do now with
> certain packages. ClamAV was the first one I noticed as it is a straight
> copy of rpmforge. Or part of the payment should end up with the rpmforge
> team for service rendered.
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I don't want to start any form of argument here, but isn't this like all
those companies out there who sell MailScanner as a chargeable service
to all their customers, and then never even consider giving me any form
of compensation for all the profit they are making out of my work?

Yes, there are a few very notable exceptions to this (thankyou, you know
who you are), but there aren't very many who give me anything. Most of
them take the profit and run, without ever even thinking of giving me
anything in return.

Also, the beta repository is free.

And any services like this that we may choose to make a charge for, I
don't directly get any of that money anyway.

Jules

I'm taking it you get some of the money when we buy the MS book or is wish list preferred?

Jason