Sounds like they jumped the gun! [LWN.net]

Sounds like they jumped the gun!

Posted May 14, 2007 9:20 UTC (Mon) by dark (subscriber, #8483)
Parent article: Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)

I assumed that all this time, they were waiting for software patents to be ratified in the EU before launching their attack. If this fight starts in earnest, it will be a powerful argument for the people opposing software patents in the EU.

This might mean that they now expect the process in the EU to be irreversible, though. We'd best be on our guard. Do they have something planned?

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Sounds like they jumped the gun!

Posted May 14, 2007 15:01 UTC (Mon) by fandom (subscriber, #4028) [Link]

I assume the same thing, and we may very well be right, after all they
haven't launched their attack yet, this is nothing but FUD.

And a stupid FUD at that, the supreme court just said that many software
patents are invalid and, even if they are valid, they don't apply outside
the USA.

Isn't it nice that Microsoft itself was responsible for that last
veredict?