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Story: Linux users could face European patent threat

It's not as cut and dried as all that PeterJudge
Protection Racket. Fantastic Analogy pround
Not from software patents SPM
No threat at all then really pround
cooperation with open source communities ator1940
Correct Me If I'm Wrong Moley

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