China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse 46
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."
Note: It was a US Software Company suing for 2.2B (Score:3, Insightful)
US software firm sues China over Green Dam piracy [guardian.co.uk]
Re:Note: It was a US Software Company suing for 2. (Score:3, Insightful)
Who handles these kinds of cases?
I seriously have no clue how international law (especially with copyrights) work.
Maybe then can sell it to MA (Score:2, Insightful)
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/13/1837227/Massachusetts-Bids-To-Restrict-Internet-Indecency [slashdot.org]
What funding? (Score:2, Insightful)
The project doesn't need funding; the developers will work for the good of the people. That's what Mao would have wanted, right? He was an OSS kind of guy.
Re:Officially Official (Score:4, Insightful)