On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 08:27 +0200, Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users- > > boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of lists > > Sent: woensdag 21 april 2010 8:10 > > To: ClamAV users ML > > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject) > > > > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:34 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: > > > Well, prosecution would be justified if ClamAV had actually done > > > something illegal. > > > > They did. Releasing 'code' that they new had a potential to harm or > > interfere with the operation of systems. It's a clearly defined > > CRIMINAL > > offence in my part of the world. I suspect that this state of affairs > > is > > also true in the USA if the case of Gary McKinnon is used as a point of > > reference. Perhaps, Jim, you would like to offer the name and address > > of > > the person pushing this code out if it does not bother you at all? I'm > > sure there are a few pissed people in the UK and Europe who would like > > to even the score up on behalf of Gary McKinnon. > > > > It is also clearly a case of blackmail. 'If you don't do this, I will > > break that' - again, that is a criminal offence in most parts of the > > civilised world. (I do accept that this may have been the work of > > *Americans* who may have lower moral and ethical standards than the > > rest > > of the world). > > Please show us some evidence that clamav made you install there free product > on your server. > Why didn't you install "some other product"? > Is it your server? Then you have the power to install every product you want > onto the machine but YOU choose Clamav and they didn't ordered/payed/beat you > to dead if you didn't install there product. > Doesn't change a thing. If you threaten me with a course of action, if I fail to do something that is blackmail. It's nothing else. It does not matter if the product is free.
For instance, if I go to a shop and they give me a radio free. I take that radio home and use it. If that shop then calls me up and says 'If you don't change that radio, I'm going to break it' it is a case of blackmail. Have a nice day :-) _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
