A Note to the EU - GET OUT OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
October 23rd 2007 13:49
Earlier on I elaborated on what I believed was a conspiracy against Microsoft through a veil known as 'The EU'. I retract that prior statement, or at least a part of it, the open source community seems to have nothing to do with this conspiracy because now, suddenly, out of no where, the EU says the open source community should pay Microsoft for alleged software patents the software giant is holding.
The natural question is, WHAT THE HELL? What software patents? They are so vague you'd have to have the imagination of Shayamalan to pull off a ripper of a twist that would even vaguely apply to any individual alleged infringment.
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The natural question is, WHAT THE HELL? What software patents? They are so vague you'd have to have the imagination of Shayamalan to pull off a ripper of a twist that would even vaguely apply to any individual alleged infringment.
Reuters reported that "Commercial developers such as IBM or Red Hat must pay a license fee of 0.4 percent of revenues to Microsoft when they redistribute that software, to protect against patent challenges."
Commissioner Kroes has said, of the deal, "That percentage royalty has become a nominal, one-off payment of Euro 10,000. This is all that has to be paid by companies that dispute the validity or relevance of Microsoft's patents
Commissioner Kroes has said, of the deal, "That percentage royalty has become a nominal, one-off payment of Euro 10,000. This is all that has to be paid by companies that dispute the validity or relevance of Microsoft's patents
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Comment by Anonymous
I am just so thankful that the UK chooses to remain on the rim of the toilet lid that is Europe and not fall in with the "floater".
Comment by Anonymous
Crooked politicians have no sense. It's like: hey the cat pooped on the carpet... How do we fix this?.. Let's pee on it.
Now guess who is going to clean up the cats poo and the little boys pee stain? Yeah, you and I.