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Scott Kirsner writes in yesterday's Boston Globe about two Boston-area companies coming out with anti-spam products. The founder of one of the companies, Spamnix, was one of the founders of the other company, InterMute. (InterMute is best known for AdSubtract.) Even though the Spamnix guy signed a non-compete, he claims it only pertains to ad-blocking software, not spam. Nevertheless, it's easy to imagine InterMute suing, if only to slow the launch of competitive software.

Nah:

"We're both attacking spam because we both hate it," Jaspan says. "There are a zillion people using e-mail, so there's room for lots of [anti-spam] products. If I do pretty well or they do pretty well, maybe one of us will acquire the other."

"My passion against spam is even greater than my competitiveness," says Paul English. "I think there can be lots of good solutions, and I wish him luck."

Now, that's the way it ought to be.