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Posted by: Ted Appleby (Monday 13 December 2004, 3:15 PM)

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Unusual no. Sinister yes.

The democratic will of the bulk of the european people is that software patents should not exist. That has been overruled by a so-called "economic majority" of corporate a$$hats. They should be taken out and shot as traitors.

Granting 20 year monopolies to giant megacorps is just stupid. It's absurd to see the EU criticizing microsoft's monopoly, while they hand MS a government-enforced monopoly on a plate

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