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   Mike strikes out again

   

   angry dude, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 6:50am

   
   

   Mikey, don't you get it, dude, that suing another commercial entity using open-source in their products is not the same as "suing open source" ?
   
   I for one would never sue open source developers.. What for ? there is no money involved and nobody to sue
   Commercial entiry making money on open source code which happens to infringe on somebody's patent is a whole different story..
   
   With all this said, Trend Micro's products suck big time
   A bloated piece of junk

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   Mike got it right

   

   matt, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 7:42am

   
   

   I think Mike got it right. However, I boycotted their products recently as well. Unfortunately I didn't know ClamAV was as good as people said until I started being made aware from the lawsuit. ...all my previous windows customers were always pointed to TrendMicro. Oh well.

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   Re: Mike strikes out again

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 7:50am

   
   

   I fail to see where Mike made that assertion. Suing companies that use open source software *does* piss off the OSS community, mostly because it causes FUD about Open Source itself, but also because the community is more able to see through the lawsuit and OSS developers are free to speak their mind as publicly as they like. Pointing that out seems pretty reasonable to me.

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   Re: Mike strikes out again

   

   Trevlac, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 9:14am

   
   

   They didn't suck last year. But this new 2008 software is as bad as Norton when it comes to startup.
   
   Does anyone know if Webroot's Antivirus compares to Trend Micro's?

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   Re: Re: Mike strikes out again

   

   Haywood, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 9:51am

   
   

   The end-all is called AVAST Free. It is free, thorough, auto updating, and has a boot-time scan, that is pretty amazing. The only thing wrong with it is you have to renew your license, again for free after a year. The only other ones I use are PCTOOLS free, good but no auto update, & Ashampoo free, ok but not truly amazing.

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   Re: Mike strikes out again

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 10:08am

   
   

   With all this said, Trend Micro's products suck big time
   A bloated piece of junk

   More accurately, many of Trend Micro's products suck. However, their free "Housecall" has saved my butt on many occasions when a machine's installed virus scanner has been compromised.

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   Angry Dudette is watching the wrong ballgame

   

   ehrichweiss, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 11:55am

   
   

   Dude, now you know why we don't believe that you have a patent: cause reading comprehension is obviously not your strong point, nor is logic.

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   Re: Re: Re: Mike strikes out again

   

   Mitch, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 12:05pm

   
   

   AVG spanks AVAST. Better scanning no license renewal, free daily virus updates, small footprint. Its also one of the number one downloads on download.com

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   Re: Angry Dudette is watching the wrong ballgame

   

   angry dude, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 12:24pm

   
   

   shut up little punk

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    I don't get it

    

    Etch, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 2:22pm

    
    

    Wait, this article is a little vague and confusing!!
    
    Is TrendMicro suing this other company because they are profiting from Open Source Code, which is a violation of this open source's developers' GNU license?
    
    Did I get that part right?
    
    If so, then shouldn't the developers of the OSS be responsible for that?

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    finger pointes @ trend micro

    

    Nelson, Feb 12th, 2008 @ 7:37pm

    
    

    HA Ha

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    Re: Mike strikes out again

    

    Mike (profile), Feb 13th, 2008 @ 12:57am

    
    

    Mikey, don't you get it, dude, that suing another commercial entity using open-source in their products is not the same as "suing open source" ?
    
    Did I say otherwise?
    
    However, Trend Micro is clearly targeting the open source component of that software, and that action has triggered the community to respond. I'm not sure how you can deny that that is exactly what has happened.
    
    I've asked you before to take the time to understand things to respond. It's disappointing to see you choose not to follow that advice.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 15th, 2008 @ 6:05am

    
    

    "AVG spanks AVAST"
    
    AVG ROCKS!!! Never hogs resources, FREE, NO ADS, Has found java and other viruses NORTON did not find.

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    Avoided Trend Micro

    

    Joe Dirty, Jan 20th, 2010 @ 11:28am

    
    

    I am not going to even consider Trend Micro after reading this. E-mail encryption will go to someone else.

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