Eneko Lacunza wrote:
[...] Hope this will help our politicians understand the current software "market".
I hope Miguel will point to Ballmer's patent threats on competing DotNET implementations.
On the patents@aful.org mailing list, phm@a2e.de said
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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-12.03.02-000/
you find a report about Steve Ballmer's speeches at CeBit in Hannover. It quotes Steve Ballmer as saying that for Unix systems a subset of DotNet will be made available but for university research only. "We have invested millions in this and obtained so many patents on it that we want to use."
Ballmer said this also with reference independent free projects such as Miguel d'Icaza's Mono.
Also, did spain political officials mention their opinion on the current directive proposal?