Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus

[Randal, Phil]

See also

"High Court approves software patents"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/ipo_software_patents/

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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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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> > Martin Hepworth
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> > Solid State Logic
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> >> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
> >> Sent: 30 January 2008 08:48
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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:
> >>     
> >>> 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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