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US SEC charges eight ex-AOL Time Warner execs
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| The scheme involved fraudulent transactions in which AOL Time Warner
| effectively funded its own advertising revenue by giving purchasers the money
| to buy online advertising that they did not want or need, the SEC said.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUKN1956209120080519
McAfee Anti-fraud Researcher Charged With Fraud
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| Brett Oliphant, whose title had been vice president of security services
| before the Napa, California, company was acquired by McAfee in January, is
| facing 11 counts of securities fraud in transactions that allegedly brought
| in more than US$1.215 million.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146078/mcafee_antifraud_researcher_charged_with_fraud.html
Days ago:
SEC charges Broadcom founder, gen counsel
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| The men schemed from 1998 to 2003 to secretly backdate stock option grants,
| which forced the company to eventually restate its financial results and
| report more than $2 billion in extra compensation expenses, the SEC said in a
| statement.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUKN1451854920080515
Recent:
New court date for ex-Microsoft domain buyer
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| A quick scheduling note for anyone tracking the case of Carolyn Gudmundson,
| the former Microsoft domain manager who pleaded guilty to mail fraud after
| she was charged in a complex scheme to steal money from the company:
| Gudmundson's sentencing date, previously set for last Friday, has been pushed
| back to May 16, at the agreement of the lawyers in the case, according to the
| court docket.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/136477.asp?source=rss
200 Million Pages Can't Be Wrong: Intel Sabotaged AMD's Business
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| The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to
| support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its
| arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information
| emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say
| Intel paid its partners to ditch AMD.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/200-Million-Pages-Can-039-t-Be-Wrong-Intel-Sabotaged-AMD-039-s-Business-84971.shtml
Related:
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
Why Are the Feds Still Gunning for McAfee's Former GC?
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| But things didn't quite work out that way. Eight years later, Roberts is
| preparing for his felony trial on two counts of mail fraud, one count of wire
| fraud, three counts of false Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and
| one count of falsifying books and records. If convicted on all seven counts,
| Roberts faces a maximum of 140 years in prison and more than $10 million in
| fines. He is also fighting a suit by the SEC for securities fraud and is a
| defendant with McAfee in two derivative suits over backdating. The SEC
| complaint called Roberts' repricing "a fraudulent scheme to enrich himself."
| Roberts pled not guilty to the criminal charges and denied the SEC
| allegations.
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| Roberts' attorney, Neal Stephens, a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo
| Alto, Calif., said that neither he nor Roberts would comment for this
| article. McAfee spokesman Joris Evers says, "McAfee does not discuss former
| employees."
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http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1200650739414
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
We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)
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| There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre
| and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older
| competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or “ambiguous”,
| the reality is quite the opposite.
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http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/insights/2008/01/11/we%E2%80%99re-not-thieves-we-just-can%E2%80%99t-read-contracts-mcafee-and-open-source/
http://tinyurl.com/39pjml
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
McAfee's libel against open source
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| Someone at McAfee thinks that the correlation between botnets and open source
| is clear, but I am struggling to grasp any connection between the two.
| Perhaps this is just one more example of McAfee's dubious grasp on reality
| when it comes to open source. Remember its statement that open-source
| licensing is a threat to its business?
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9917989-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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