Barracuda to be sued for patent infringement in ClamAV

[simo]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:42 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> I hope they find the necessary prior art, but I think this is also
> interesting from the point of view of making the software patent problem
> understandable to politicians.
> 
> Spam and viruses are social problems.  Trend Micro are giving us an example
> to cite so that we can explain to MEPs that software patents block solutions
> to social problems.
> 
> I'm wondering if/how we should build on this...

Diseases are real social problems too but yet we have patents on drugs.

Careful it's a slippery slope.

Simo.