Have a look at the following video.



Over the years, Europe has maintained its sanity and sidled with logic. It acknowledged that fact that software patents must not exist. Some hypothesise (and almost even surmise) that Microsoft's timing in this attack was carefully planned as to manipulate discussions about (and possibly change) European patent laws.

Microsoft's claim that Linux infringes its patents was dismissed today as a tactic to spoil a European conference on rationalising the law on the subject.