China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse

katarn writes "Apparently domestic and international pressure, security vulnerabilities, and a $2.2B lawsuit over alleged stolen code have taken their toll on China's Green Dam software censorship program. Green Dam is a separate program from the 'Great Firewall of China,' which remains firmly in place. According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."

Dam it!

[daremonai]

According to Mr Chen, requests to the government for more funding had generated no response.

Actually, the government did try to respond, but unfortunately Green Dam blocked it. Some sort of obscenity issue, apparently.

Re:Damn China damn green damn software

[Coren22]

**** China **** green **** software sirs.

China green software? What is this supposed to mean? I don't understand. Are you saying I should uninstall Green Dam?

Re:Green damn!

[MightyMartian]

Further, Green Dam project partners have been trying to get the development team on the phone for weeks, but just yesterday have been getting "Number not in service" recordings, and the mail and news papers have been collecting at the door of the development team office for months.

In most places that would mean it was out of business. In China it means that, tragically, the developers died in a plane crash after forgetting to put fuel in the tank.

Re:Going green

[Anonymous Coward]

But now how will China go green?

Crossbreeding with Na'vi.