Patents Roundup: Microsoft Trolls, Lobbyists, and End[ing] Software Patents (ESP)

Intellectual Ventures revisited; Microsoft keeps busy promoting software patents in Europe; software patents under scrutiny with successful campaigning against themExploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severeimplications

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• ⇒European Open Source Software Workgroup a Total Scam: Hijacked and Subverted by Microsoft
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