Intellectual property Toolkit

Story: Opera and MySQL battle against software patents

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Software patents are about one thing only. An arms race. Legal arms to be precise. Only huge companies with large budgets could hope to come out somewhat undamaged. The rest (actually, most of us) will only end up in the crossfire. Defenseless as we are.

Or do we still have politicians in office that dream those little boy day dream of one Rambo like hero that can fend off entire armored armies with nothing but a bow and a knife? Or still clueless enough to think this is only about Open Source? Or even misguided enough to see this as a benefit for anyone and everything? We must have plenty of those still in office given recent events.

One thing is for sure. People will remember (or made to remember) the decisions today's politicians will shortly make. And when its time to present the bill for that (on voting days) the politicians (or the parties they currently are attached to) will finally be made to hear the voice of the people across Europa.

Because ignored we will not. And listened to we shall.

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