Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus

[mikea]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:07:56PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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> dnsadmin 1bigthink.com wrote:
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> | Any good, dead lawyer jokes, anybody?
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> Perhaps we should put layers to good use and let them sue Osama in person.
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> But in fact it does not matter what scanner you use. The way they put it
> any viruscanner called upon by MailScanner is a violation of the patent
> as well. So if Trend Micro can get away with this then we are all up
> against the legal wall as well.
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> Hugo.

Well, I understand that one of the patent authors was involved in a 
malware-filtering project at a previous job, and then came to work
for Barracuda. That, if true, could make life a little interesting 
for Trend. 

But the patent, as I understand it, doesn't cover MailScanner's mode
of operation. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin