Could Europe's Patent Law Be the Reason for These Shark-like FUD Attacks?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-19 05:40:04 UTC
Modified: 2007-05-19 05:40:04 UTC
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.
"It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy. Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy."
