Patently nonsense: smartphones, scanners and open source
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| The latest patent idiocies could put phone prices up and increase your
| security bill. And only one of the cases would be fixed by my own theory of
| patents (if you don’t yourself manufacture the item or use the process
| protected by a patent, I think you shouldn’t be able to benefit from the
| patent by extorting money from companies that do go to the effort of actually
| making something).
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/maryb/2008/01/29/patently-nonsense-smartphones-scanners-and-open-source/
What is this? The middle ages? I bet Ballmer is barfing out that porridge all
over himself laughing...
FreeRADIUS and Linux Secure Your WLAN
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| The RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) protocol has long
| been a standard authentication, authorization and accounting protocol for
| Internet service providers and businesses.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/3555556
Yesterday:
Barracuda Networks Asks For Help Finding Prior Art to Defend ClamAV - Updated
3Xs
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| We have another Pick Your Brain request. This one comes from Barracuda
| Networks, the email and web security appliances company, but it's about an
| attack on ClamAV, the Open Source antivirus product.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713
Software patent case defendant seeks support of FOSS community
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| Barracuda Networks is actively seeking the support of the free and open
| source software (FOSS) community in its battle against a patent suit brought
| against it by Trend Micro. The suit revolves around Barracuda's distribution
| of Clam Antivirus (ClamAV), the well-known FOSS security software, with its
| firewall and Web filter hardware appliances.
|
| The case is the second piece of software patent litigation to directly
| involve FOSS. The first was a case brought against Red Hat and Novell by IP
| Innovation for the inclusion of virtual workspaces in their Linux
| distributions.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/125807
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