[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Open source advocate David Skoll launched Roaring Penguin
Software in 1999 because he was restless in his job as R&D
project leader at Chipworks, Inc. Roaring Penguin started strictly
as a consultancy, but the next year, after Skoll was commissioned
to create software to help London’s Royal College of Physicians
stem the tide of email viruses and spam to its servers, he decided
the world needed a better email filter. Skoll wrote the now
ubiquitous MIMEDefang email filter, released it to the community,
and proceeded to build a successful business on top of GPL
software.“‘All my clients started saying, ‘We need to do something about
spam.” After he wrote MIMEDefang and it started becoming popular,
Skoll developed it further into a commercial product he calls
CanIT…”