micro$haft wants your ass

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> the percentage of Ireland's tax revenue which is Microsoft is rather
> scary because of the way they handle Windows sales in the EU

And thus, Charles McCreevy (who is irish), Director-General of the Internal
Market, is a strong proponent of software patents, which would mostly
benefit american companies (most of which have Irish subsidiaries and thus
pay irish corporate taxes).

Regards
Ingemar