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| == Persbericht ScriptumLibre / Vrijschrift, 6 februari 2008 == == Press Release ScriptumLibre, Februari 6, 2008 == = Wereldwijde boycott van antivirusontwikkelaar Trend Micro = = Worldwide boycott of anti virus developer Trend Micro = Vrijschrift roept op tot een wereldwijde boycott van Trend Micro na de juridische aanval op Barracuda Networks met een software-patent. |
== Press Release ScriptumLibre, Februari 7, 2008 == |
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| Barracuda Networks levert kant en klare beveiligingsoplossingen voor bedrijven en gebruikt voor het scannen van virussen ClamAV. Trend Micro eist dat ClamAV niet meer geleverd wordt of dat er betaald wordt. Dit impliceert echter dat Trend Micro stelt dat alle gebruikers van ClamAV inbreuk maken op het bewuste patent en daarmee heeft Trend Micro zich de woede op de hals gehaald. | = ScriptumLibre.org calls for boycott of Trend Micro = |
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| Een algemeen probleem met software-patenten is dat ze vaak een te breed technisch gebied monopoliseren waardoor vrije marktwerking ernstig gehinderd wordt en dat ze vrijwel altijd triviaal zijn. In dit geval gaat het om het concept van scannen van virussen op de poorten, iets uitermate voor de hand liggends wat iedere virusscanner doet. Normaal worden software-patenten defensief gebruikt maar Trend Micro gebruikt het op aggresieve wijze en heeft in het verleden diverse organisaties waaronder Symantec en McAffee afgeperst en nu dus ook gebruikers. | WORKUM, The Netherlands -- Friday, February 8, 2008 -- The ScriptumLibre.org Foundation today has issued a call for a worldwide boycott on Trend Micro products. The call comes as a response to a lawsuit filed on January 29th by Trend Micro, which claims that software-security company, Barracuda Networks, is infringing its U.S.-patent on software that filters out viruses on Internet gateway computers. The claim targets the free and open source (FOSS) software program, Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), and demands that Barracuda either cease distributing with their Web filtering hardware and other products, or pay Trend Micro a licensing fee. |
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| Voor Vrijschrift is dit voldoende reden om een boycott af te roepen over Trend Micro. Vrijschrift-voorzitter Wiebe van der Worp: "Trend Micro gaat op een afschuwlijke wijze ver over de grenzen van fatsoen. Het is absoluut onaanvaardbaar wat hier gebeurt, het Amerikaanse rechtssysteem wordt simpelweg misbruikt door op een laffe manier eindgebruikers te beschuldigen en dit moet afgestraft worden. Dit mag geen tendens worden." Om de boycott kracht bij te zetten heeft Vrijschrift op haar site banners beschikbaar gesteld. | In the United States, most software vendors that hold software patents tend to maintain a "cold war" amongst each other, collecting patents, and holding on to them for defensive purposes. Rarely are suits filed against one another aggressively. ScriptumLibre's chairman Wiebe van der Worp finds Trend Micro's aggressive use of litigation to be "well beyond the borders of decency," and points to the company's past history of, "extorting organizations such as Symantec and McAfee with similar threats of litigation." However, there are deeper concerns echoed by van der Worp, and others, in the threats this lawsuit holds toward others in the FOSS community. Recognizing this threat, Barracuda CEO, Dean Drako, in a statement to the FOSS community, writes, "Trend Micro’s actions illustrate that ClamAV and other open source projects remain vulnerable to commercial patent holders attempting to unjustly hinder the free and open source community." |
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| == Bijlagen en links == | As a result, many in the community are banding together, and offering support towards Barracuda, such as Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center, who has stated that the "Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem." The roll that ScriptumLibre has taken is to raise the flag and draw attention to the abuses being made of the patent system and to urge the entire IT community, including both the proprietary and FOSS communities, to boycott Trend Micro products. == Links and Attachments == Boycott web page with information, banners and cartoons: http://www.scriptumlibre.org/Boycott_Trend_Micro |
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| Wiebe van der Worp, voorzitter Vrijschrift wiebe at vrijschrift.org tel.: 06 455 939 82 | Wiebe van der Worp, chairman ScriptumLibre, wiebe at vrijschrift.org tel.: +31 6 455 939 82 |
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Press Release ScriptumLibre, Februari 7, 2008
ScriptumLibre.org calls for boycott of Trend Micro
WORKUM, The Netherlands -- Friday, February 8, 2008 -- The ScriptumLibre.org Foundation today has issued a call for a worldwide boycott on Trend Micro products. The call comes as a response to a lawsuit filed on January 29th by Trend Micro, which claims that software-security company, Barracuda Networks, is infringing its U.S.-patent on software that filters out viruses on Internet gateway computers. The claim targets the free and open source (FOSS) software program, Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), and demands that Barracuda either cease distributing with their Web filtering hardware and other products, or pay Trend Micro a licensing fee.
In the United States, most software vendors that hold software patents tend to maintain a "cold war" amongst each other, collecting patents, and holding on to them for defensive purposes. Rarely are suits filed against one another aggressively. ScriptumLibre's chairman Wiebe van der Worp finds Trend Micro's aggressive use of litigation to be "well beyond the borders of decency," and points to the company's past history of, "extorting organizations such as Symantec and McAfee with similar threats of litigation." However, there are deeper concerns echoed by van der Worp, and others, in the threats this lawsuit holds toward others in the FOSS community. Recognizing this threat, Barracuda CEO, Dean Drako, in a statement to the FOSS community, writes, "Trend Micro’s actions illustrate that ClamAV and other open source projects remain vulnerable to commercial patent holders attempting to unjustly hinder the free and open source community."
As a result, many in the community are banding together, and offering support towards Barracuda, such as Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center, who has stated that the "Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem." The roll that ScriptumLibre has taken is to raise the flag and draw attention to the abuses being made of the patent system and to urge the entire IT community, including both the proprietary and FOSS communities, to boycott Trend Micro products.
Links and Attachments
Boycott web page with information, banners and cartoons: http://www.scriptumlibre.org/Boycott_Trend_Micro
Contact
Wiebe van der Worp, chairman ScriptumLibre, wiebe at vrijschrift.org tel.: +31 6 455 939 82