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Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback So, not only were they knowledgeable of their GPL violation, but they deliberately and purposefully attempted to hide it. Fortinet should've been fined severely for their willful attempts to hide their license violation.
[April 26, 2005, 19:03]
Fortinet Accused Of GPL Violation
News This violation by Fortinet is especially egregious since the vendor not only violated the GPL, but actively tried to hide that violation," said Welte in a statement. Security vendor Fortinet has been accused of misusing software licensed under the...
[April 14, 2005, 17:10]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback People won't go away from GPL. It allows big companies such as IBM, HP, oracle.to share code and inovations and work together to create a high quality OS for their hardware or software. Moreover, it's open source, so anybody can fix that code.
[April 27, 2005, 11:35]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback Well 'Sum Yung Gai' - you don't see the point in all this litigation (or threats thereof). You don't want to scare companies away or drive them out of business, you want to make them comply. Most of the time this is accomplished via out-of-court...
[April 27, 2005, 22:46]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback Thes guys must be really stupid. Whenever you read an article by Laura Didio of Yankee Group or Rob Enderle they cleary point out the GPL never have been tested in court. So why do thay comply? Or could it be that these analysts doesn't know what...
[April 26, 2005, 19:26]
Internet Explorer Patent-violation Appeal Dismissed
Talkback Redesigning of millions of web pages is going to happen anyway. Might as well conform to an open industry standard then. And when also done with Open Source solutions like Apache and others the ability to quickly react to changing market demands...
[November 2, 2005, 20:29]
Skype Sued For Patent Violation
Talkback ICMP, SMTP, DNS, etc. Wonder if that exchanges IP addresses between processing units in order to establish a direct communication link between the devices via the Internet. What's next? Broadcast each and every packet over the entire Internet just...
[June 8, 2006, 0:51]
Skype Sued For Patent Violation
Talkback Peer to peer network protocols use the same concept. In active mode the servents exchange IP addresses and form point to point connections for exactly the same reasons as Skype and other net telephony apps.
[June 7, 2006, 14:47]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback Keep in mind that analyst has the root word "Anal" in it. This is from the state of thier heads- that body part's placed in their anal canal and solidly locked in place. Seriously, though, they tend to be actually rather clueless about what...
[April 27, 2005, 0:16]
Skype Sued For Patent Violation
Talkback Communications between 2 nodes. They exchange addresses! That is what communications is about. Where is the patentability in that.sounds like yet another software patent that should never have been allowed.
[June 6, 2006, 13:16]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback I think is great they are frying these people so it will drive people away from using opensource and back to the closed model where the money is. Keep up the lawsuits to dirve people away.
[April 27, 2005, 4:16]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback What this means: Fortinet had the *option* of publishing some of their product's source code - specifically their modifications to the Linux kernel - to comply with the GPL. They had other options, including withdrawing the product, re-engineering...
[April 26, 2005, 15:48]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
News Security vendor Fortinet has agreed to make some of its source code available, following accusations that it violated the GPL, the company said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, gpl-violations.org founder Harald Welte obtained a court injunction...
[April 26, 2005, 12:00]
Managing Badware And Policy Violation With Aanval And Bleeding Edge Threat Snort Rules
White Papers Badware, Instant Messaging (IM), and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) apps, are prominent issues facing those with the task of securing enterprise computing environments. The risks are plentiful, including potential loss of confidential data, Trojans, and rootkits.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
BT Under Fire Over GPL 'violation'
News BT is in dispute with some in the open-source community over its use of GPL-licensed code in its Home Hub router. As reported earlier this week, BT was recently accused of violating the GPL through its use of open-source software within the Home Hub.
[January 26, 2007, 16:04]
RSA Sues Novell For Patent Violation
News The Californian, subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies Inc.is best known for its namesake public key algorithm, which is used in the encryption mechanisms of most browsers and is considered a key to digital certificate technology.
[April 12, 1999, 8:03]
BT Accused Of GPL Violation
News UK telecoms firm BT has upset some members of the open-source community after it used software that had been released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in one of its latest commercial products, but did not immediately release the code to...
[January 23, 2007, 16:02]
Skype Sued For Patent Violation
News Internet phone company Net2Phone has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival Skype Technologies and its parent company, eBay. Net2Phone, which filed its lawsuit last week in US District Court in New Jersey, alleges Skype infringed on its...
[June 6, 2006, 11:10]
Outrage Over Privacy Violation In Cybercrime Treaty
News A coalition of 22 human rights and public policy organisations say the Council of Europe's latest draft of an international cybercrime treaty gives law enforcement too much power and individuals too little.
[December 14, 2000, 8:45]
AMD Accused Of Patent Violation
News Opti, a chip-oriented intellectual property company, has filed a lawsuit alleging that AMD violated three patents with its Opteron processors and other products. Opti, which is based in Mountain View, California, alleges in its patent infringement...
[November 20, 2006, 8:18]
