Florian Mueller
Florian Mueller
Florian Mülleris a German lobbyist. He consults for Microsoft and Oracle and writes the FOSSPatents blog about patent and copyright issues, particularly those centering on Google. From 1985 to 1998, he was a computer magazine writer and consultant for companies, helping with collaborations between software companies. In 2004 he founded the NoSoftwarePatents campaign and in 2007 he provided some consultancy in relation to football policy...
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Given the size of the Linux code, it?s almost certain that it will violate a number of patents, and some of them, such as the ones on the FAT file system, may indeed be held by Microsoft.
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I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved,
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Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.
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Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.
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Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.
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In open-source software (OSS), Europe is at the forefront,