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= 080208 FSF supports the boycott =
The Free Software Foundation announced their support for the boycott of Trend Micro this evening. We are very glad they did and hope more players will follow
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= 080208 Press Releases Issued =
The press releases about the boycott of Trend Micro are released at 9:00 Dutch time. See ["Press Release Boycott Trend Micro"]
= A word from the HijackThis developer 120208 =
Merijn Bellekom is the original developer of the popular program HijackThis and sold the program to Trend Micro in 2006. On the question how he looks at the attack of Trend Micro on ClamAV he answered: "I have not been doing business with TrendMicro for more than a year and I have nothing to do with HijackThis anymore. I don't know why they went in this direction or what they hope to achieve but I do not think it will become really successful or popular."

= The boycott is slashdotted (120208) =
The Boycott of trend Micro is '''slashdotted''' (110208 in the US). This is what we need: exposure in order to make the boycott effective.

 * http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/11/2011258 '''Trend Micro Draws Boycott Over AV Patent Case'''
 * http://www.linux.com/feature/126851 '''Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott'''

= FSF supports the boycott (080208) =
The '''Free Software Foundation announced their support''' for the boycott of Trend Micro this evening. We are very glad they did and hope more players will follow

= Press Releases Issued (080208) =
The '''press releases about the boycott''' of Trend Micro are released at 9:00 Dutch time. See ["Press Release Boycott Trend Micro"]

= Start Dutch Boycott of Trend Micro (040208) =
The '''Vrijschrift.org Foundation started a boycott of Trend Micro'''.

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A word from the HijackThis developer 120208

Merijn Bellekom is the original developer of the popular program HijackThis and sold the program to Trend Micro in 2006. On the question how he looks at the attack of Trend Micro on ClamAV he answered: "I have not been doing business with TrendMicro for more than a year and I have nothing to do with HijackThis anymore. I don't know why they went in this direction or what they hope to achieve but I do not think it will become really successful or popular."

The boycott is slashdotted (120208)

The Boycott of trend Micro is slashdotted (110208 in the US). This is what we need: exposure in order to make the boycott effective.

FSF supports the boycott (080208)

The Free Software Foundation announced their support for the boycott of Trend Micro this evening. We are very glad they did and hope more players will follow

Press Releases Issued (080208)

The press releases about the boycott of Trend Micro are released at 9:00 Dutch time. See ["Press Release Boycott Trend Micro"]

Start Dutch Boycott of Trend Micro (040208)

The Vrijschrift.org Foundation started a boycott of Trend Micro.

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