N.B. Charlie McCreevy tried to paint efforts to rectify patent law (and the EPO) as "anti-Americanism". It's a straw man. He said: "The theme, or the background music, to both of these particular directives you could see as part of, anti-globalisation, anti-Americanism, anti-big business protests --- in lots of senses, anti-the opening up of markets." To whom? To banks?
In short, it's not too clear what Microsoft has just done except dumping GitHub - i.e. mostly a Web site that loses a ton of money (it always lost money) - into some mysterious new bucket
