Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus

[Julian Field]

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One bit of bad news. I just discovered the patent was also granted in 
the UK as

GB2309561. So it does affect me :-(
How they got that one through when we theoretically don't have software patents is beyond me.


Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Heh
>
> I see McAffee and Symantec have already dolled the money as it's cheaper than "fighting a stupid patent" (tm). ;-(
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>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
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>> Subject: Re: Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus
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>> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:12, Julian Field wrote:
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>>> But I thought patents affected the designers of such systems, not the
>>> users. They are going after Barracuda, not their customers.
>>>       
>> They can always stop the systems from being sold in the US.
>> However MailScanner is never sold as its free ;)
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University of Southampton
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