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[News] McAfee's Open Source Saga and Fraud Not Over Yet

  • Subject: [News] McAfee's Open Source Saga and Fraud Not Over Yet
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:42:12 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
McAfee, Inc. Welcomes Nine New Partners to Its Security Innovation Alliance
Program

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| LogLogic(R) provides an enterprise-class platform for collecting, storing, 
| reporting and alerting on 100% of IT log data from virtually any source. 
| LogLogic intends to provide bi-lateral integration between its open log 
| management and intelligence platform and McAfee ePO. LogLogic's integrated 
| analysis applications for compliance, security and operational excellence 
| will be able to leverage information provided by McAfee ePO and will in turn 
| enhance McAfee ePO analytics with information about user and system behavior.      
| 
| "LogLogic applauds McAfee's initiative to deliver open compliance, risk and 
| security solutions," said Dominique Levin, executive vice president of 
| marketing, products and business development, LogLogic. "Open and integrated 
| multi-vendor applications deliver excellent time to value and reduce costs 
| for our mutual customers."    
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLM03221012008-1.htm

Why Are the Feds Still Gunning for McAfee's Former GC?

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| But things didn't quite work out that way. Eight years later, Roberts is 
| preparing for his felony trial on two counts of mail fraud, one count of wire 
| fraud, three counts of false Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and 
| one count of falsifying books and records. If convicted on all seven counts, 
| Roberts faces a maximum of 140 years in prison and more than $10 million in 
| fines. He is also fighting a suit by the SEC for securities fraud and is a 
| defendant with McAfee in two derivative suits over backdating. The SEC  
| complaint called Roberts' repricing "a fraudulent scheme to enrich himself." 
| Roberts pled not guilty to the criminal charges and denied the SEC 
| allegations.        
| 
| Roberts' attorney, Neal Stephens, a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo 
| Alto, Calif., said that neither he nor Roberts would comment for this 
| article. McAfee spokesman Joris Evers says, "McAfee does not discuss former
employees."   
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http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1200650739414


Recent:

We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)

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| There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre 
| and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older 
| competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or “ambiguous”, 
| the reality is quite the opposite.   
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http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/insights/2008/01/11/we%E2%80%99re-not-thieves-we-just-can%E2%80%99t-read-contracts-mcafee-and-open-source/
http://tinyurl.com/39pjml


McAfee throws some FUD at the GPL

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| In its annual report, Windows security software vendor McAfee told its 
| investors that open source software licence terms it vaguely characterised 
| as " ambiguous" might "result in unanticipated obligations regarding our 
| products."   
| 
| [...]
| 
| That statement says several things. First, it reveals that McAfee does use at 
| least some open source software derived code in its products. Second, it 
| betrays that McAfee has misappropriated that open source software and thus is 
| committing copyright infringement, because it doesn't distribute that open 
| source software derivative source code. Third, by calling its products that  
| include open source software code "proprietary", McAfee shows that it really 
| doesn't want to shoulder its GPL licence obligations, but instead wants to 
| both have its cake and eat it too.      
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/05/mcafee-throws-fud-gpl


McAfee to pay $13.8 million to settle backdating lawsuits

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| McAfee has taken two major steps toward closing the stock-option backdating 
| scandal that has plagued the company for the past two years. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071222/tc_infoworld/94209

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