2008-01-31 03:30:01
Trend Micro is suing Barracuda Networks over its use of the free open source antivirus software, ClamAV. If it wins, open-source advocates fear it threatens all users of the free software and will legitimize the use of patent law to attack OSS. Following months of legal threats issued to Barracuda Networks, Trend Micro is suing its rival over its use of ClamAV--a product maintained by U.S. open-source company Sourcefire--on the grounds that Barracuda Network's use of the software in some of its own products infringes a patent held by Trend Micro on applying AV via gateway proxy servers.
[Here is your overblown article title for the day - Scott] 

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