Posted by: Marc (Friday 18 February 2005, 2:59 PM)
The throwing out of this American style, corporate-happy legislation is good news for the IT industry and therefor for the economies of European countries in general.
I suppose its bad news however for a select few large multi-national software companies who want to use legal threats to maintain their very profitable monopolies in various markets.
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There will be further activation issues to watch out for as Microsoft plans to offer a similar service to independent software vendors whereby they can "control" licensing through activation and other measures similar to the Software Protection Platform.
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