In reply to Chris Van Patten.

Also, I imagine there could be improvements to both BruteProtect and Akismet's data if they shared resources. Maybe blacklisted IPs in BruteProtected are automatically throttled from commenting, or IPs blacklisted in Akismet aren't allowed to log in without some kind of verification check.

I know this type of data-sharing is possible without rolling the two into a single plugin, but it would make much more sense to end users if they were just additional features in a single product rather than two separate products that happen to communicate (if you have both installed and configured separately).