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[News] Trend Micro Learns the Price of Software Patents

  • Subject: [News] Trend Micro Learns the Price of Software Patents
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:46:57 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott

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| Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center is aware of the case, and is 
| considering a patent re-examination request or another intervention in the 
| case.  
| 
| Contacted by Linux.com, Barracuda's Drako acknowledged the array of reactions 
| by saying, "We at Barracuda want to extend our thanks to the tremendous 
| number of individuals who expressed support for our defending the use of 
| ClamAV free and open source software, as well as to the community members 
| that have submitted prior art."    
| 
| If Trend Micro hasn't already, it is about to find out that the case is about 
| free software after all. 
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http://www.linux.com/feature/126851


Related:

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


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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