Comments on: What’s going on with Barracuda, Trend Micro, and ClamAV? http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/29/whats-going-on-with-barracuda-trend-micro-and-clamav/ Keeping you in the loop with up-to-date Linux news. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ovelarsen http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/29/whats-going-on-with-barracuda-trend-micro-and-clamav/#comment-1021 ovelarsen Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:31:34 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/29/whats-going-on-with-barracuda-trend-micro-and-clamav/#comment-1021 Groklaw - a great source of information - have a piece on it here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713 and have some comments: As Justin Mason, vice president of the Apache Software Foundation, notes: "Trend Micro's actions are clearly an attack on free and open-source software and its users, as well as on Barracuda Networks. The '600 patent covers a trivial method, one which was obvious to anyone skilled in the art at the time (the patent was written), and should be rendered invalid as soon as possible." Groklaw - a great source of information - have a piece on it here:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713

and have some comments: As Justin Mason, vice president of the Apache Software Foundation, notes:

“Trend Micro’s actions are clearly an attack on free and open-source software and its users, as well as on Barracuda Networks. The ‘600 patent covers a trivial method, one which was obvious to anyone skilled in the art at the time (the patent was written), and should be rendered invalid as soon as possible.”

]]> By: AmazingKip http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/29/whats-going-on-with-barracuda-trend-micro-and-clamav/#comment-1012 AmazingKip Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:10:07 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/29/whats-going-on-with-barracuda-trend-micro-and-clamav/#comment-1012 I hate patent trolls. These companies need to disappear off the face of the map. I hate patent trolls. These companies need to disappear off the face of the map.

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