Showing posts with label trend micro. Show all posts
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04 February 2008

The Power of the Boycott

One of the surprising things about the Internet is the power of public opinion. Time and again, things have happened - or rather, been made to happen - because enough people have become indignant about it online.

That fact lends some hope to the following idea:

Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent infringement but what they really did was attacking the users of ClamAV free anti virus software with a bogus patent. As a first reaction we feel disgusted about what Trend Micro did: stabbing free software with a knife right in the heart. A company should operate between borders of a certain ethical environment. When a company exceeds the borders of decency - as Trend Micro did by attacking computer users and free software developers - it has become a pariah and should be punished.

You can help by starting to get rid of Trend Micro software in your organization

Will it catch on? Will it have any effect? We shall see? (Via Boycott Novell.)