Re: IBM pops bubble of open source business models

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Gregory Aharonian writes:
> [...]
> Poor guy. Did he not get the memo? This is what open source software is all
> about: creating knockoffs and giving them away, destroying the value of
> whatever the other guy is selling.
> [...]

Suuuure, open source only copies, never innovates.  Pure anti-OSS FUD.

Please point out the commercial spam-filtering software which was
providing the same accuracy as SpamAssassin, when I started that project.
There's plenty of commercial "knockoffs" now, of course, but back then,
SpamAssassin was in a field of its own.

- --j.
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