Is McAfee just asking for a lawsuit?
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| Eben Moglen and the troops at the Software Freedom Law Center may want to
| read the McAfee annual report more than once. Without this warning there’s a
| chance Eben may do a spit-take on his morning coffee.
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| McAfee stock is down 20% in the last two months and, it seems, they’re just
| asking to be sued.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1864
Look what happened to SCO after it cursed the GPL.
Recent:
McAfee throws some FUD at the GPL
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| In its annual report, Windows security software vendor McAfee told its
| investors that open source software licence terms it vaguely characterised
| as " ambiguous" might "result in unanticipated obligations regarding our
| products."
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| [...]
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| That statement says several things. First, it reveals that McAfee does use at
| least some open source software derived code in its products. Second, it
| betrays that McAfee has misappropriated that open source software and thus is
| committing copyright infringement, because it doesn't distribute that open
| source software derivative source code. Third, by calling its products that
| include open source software code "proprietary", McAfee shows that it really
| doesn't want to shoulder its GPL licence obligations, but instead wants to
| both have its cake and eat it too.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/05/mcafee-throws-fud-gpl
Recent:
McAfee to pay $13.8 million to settle backdating lawsuits
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| McAfee has taken two major steps toward closing the stock-option backdating
| scandal that has plagued the company for the past two years.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071222/tc_infoworld/94209
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