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Waiting for European software patents?Waiting for European software patents?Posted Dec 8, 2003 18:31 UTC (Mon) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register) I've suspected for years that Microsoft has been waiting for the EU to harmonize software patents, hopefully in their favor, before doing something like this. Then the EU, like the US, would be forced to either pay Microsoft to run all software (Windows, Linux, or anything else), or else reverse their previous legislation on patents, the latter of which is very hard to do. In the meantime, if they were to start enforcing first, then that would likely tip the European Parliament against them. Perhaps they're starting to give up on the EU harmonizing in their favor, or have some dirty tricks to pull in the background to swing it the other way, or else (as the article suggests) they're so confident that they think people don't care. In any case, this presents an opportunity to remind MEPs of the looming potential danger of such patents...
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