Defense Secretary Gates Plans Major Offensive on Apple, Linux, Google
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| Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, who was appointed by President
| Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary in November of last
| year and confirmed by the Senate today, said he will dedicate his new
| mandate in part "to the ongoing global struggle against unfair
| competition and open source radicalism".
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http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=307
While it's clearly satirical, it's not far from the truth. Gates /et al/
speak to governments all over the world and change legistlation to suit self
and hurt rivals. It is happening at the very moment. Here is a partial
sample from the past 3 days alone:
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| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
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http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/
Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
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| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
| government officials, software developers and customers, he
| plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
| fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system.
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php
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