Nutzwerk is a scam, and should be ashamed of themselves

If you're trying to open up the FFII's web pages at ffii.org, you might notice that for some reason this isn't possible. What's happened is that some German software company called "Nutzwerk" has been abusing loopholes in the German law system that allowed them to file no less than five distinct lawsuits about the very same thing so that the FFII, in the end, couldn't afford the costs anymore.

The claims were about some documentation that the FFII had put up on their website about their services. Apparently, as can be read in the google cache of a recent press release on FFII.org, Nutzwerk was used as an example of a successful SME based on software patents—but a very dubious one at that.

They'll probably try to sue me now, but I don't care. They deserve all the negative attention they can get.

Hint: www.ffii.de still seems to work. Oh well.

Update: this entry isn't entirely correct. Read this.