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Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:59:32 +1300
John Payne wrote: <<snip>>
Then it is GOOD that trend micro is trying to enforce it. Without enforcement there would be no challenge.
Ohhh, don't think this is the first time Trend has tried to enforce it. Waaay back they got Symantec and McAfee to roll over and pay up, and then used that as a lever against most other commercial AV developers who were marketing (or known to be developing) Email gateway scanners. Speculation at the time of the Symantec and McAfee deal is that Trend agreed to some very nominal licensing fee but of course any public declarations of the value of those payouts were prohibited by either side. That would make sense, as Symantec and McAfee would have been well-placed at the time to attack the very dodgy grounds on which the patent was awarded, but it wouldn't have been worth their effort if they only had to pay Trend a buck or grand or somesuch... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag, (continued)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Larry Seltzer (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Nick FitzGerald (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Dude VanWinkle (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Dude VanWinkle (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Paul Vixie (Feb 02)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Alex Shipp (elist) (Feb 04)
- Re: funsec Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3 Robert Praetorius (Feb 04)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Paul Vixie (Feb 02)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag John Payne (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Nick FitzGerald (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Dude VanWinkle (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag security curmudgeon (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag security curmudgeon (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Nick FitzGerald (Jan 30)
- Re: TrendMicro goes Douchebag Florian Weimer (Jan 31)