Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro
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| Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent
| infringement but what they really did was attacking the users of ClamAV free
| anti virus software with a bogus patent.
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http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/Call_for_action%3A_Boycott_Trend_Micro
More on software patents:
IAM magazine admits that a central court can legalize software patents
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| Imagine a freaky judge at a central patent court adopting the same decision
| as the english judge Kitchin has made recently, and you get software patents
| validated Europe wide.
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http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-39286/iam-magazine-admits-that-a-central-court-can-legalize-software-patents
ScienceMag: Indian Government Hopes Bill Will Stimulate Innovation
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| I find not only the proposed law and the reasoning behind it worrying, but
| also the very uncritical way it is reported in Science. There seems to be no
| questioning of the equation "patents = innovation".
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227/sciencemag:indian-government-hopes-bill-will-stimulate-innovation
Related:
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
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