From phm@a2e.de  Fri Jun 22 16:08:03 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:08:03 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Microsoft Uses Open-Source Code
In-Reply-To: <20010622102747.A7D7E1141C@stabilite.aful.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106221706001.13992-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>

> I don't like them, but I only hope that they are anti-patent, or even
> if not, then they may be moved to the anti-patent position. It'd be
> really good for us all.

They are in fact lobbying for software patents at many levels.  One
important reason for that can be found in the halloween papers

	http://www.opensource.org/halloween/

Apart from being a good weapon to kill opensource software, as written
there, software patents can help fortify a monopolistic situation, even
if at present there are other companies that have more swpats than M$.

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Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents         http://www.noepatents.org/





