Though the People's Republic will not require PC makers to install Green Dam software, we surely haven't heard the last of Internet censorship According to a story reported in the Washington Post and elsewhere, the Chinese government has backed down on its plans to require PC manufacturers to install government-mandated censorship software — for now. It appears that the decision was made at least in part due to pressure from PC makers and Internet activists.The government did not set any new deadline for compliance, but left the door open. According to Wen Yunchao, an editor at the Chinese Web site Netease: “The government might eventually seek to resurrect the plan and make installation mandatory.”In an ironic twist, the software at the root of China’s so-called Green Dam Youth Escort censorship project appears to have been pirated and directly violates both copyrighted code written by California software company Solid Oak, as well as the open source BSD license of OpenCV image processing library. There have also been reported security vulnerabilities and defects within the Green Dam software. Technology Industry