[Sussex] Blackmail!

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:55:10PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> This link (it's in Danish, sorry, but I know we have at least one Danish
> speaker on the list ) reports on how Bill Gates personally tried to
> blackmail the Danish government into supporting software patents:
> 
> http://www.borsen.dk/dagens-nyheder/?ids[]=70135

Groklaw has this story too with a pretty accurate translation for those
of you who do not speak Danish:

    http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231

Unfortunately, I cannot boycott Microsoft software because of this... 
I am already converted to Debian GNU/Linux...

-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
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