Intellectual Property Law

Apple Gets it Right After StopBadware et al. Send Warning

By palfrey

StopBadware and the rest of the Net community trying to keep the environment clean of bad code scored a good win this week in the public interest.  The StopBadware team and others were all over a software update from Apple that operated as badware, offering new software installations disguised as product updates.  StopBadware blogged about our review process, saying we were looking into it; prepared a report declaring them as badware; sent the draft report to Apple for review (as we do for all targets before public release); and lo-and-behold, Apple fixed the problem and issued an updated version.  Well done to Max Weinstein and the whole SBW team and others out there keeping companies honest.  If only it ordinarily worked this way…

Full post as published by John Palfrey on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).