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Mikko Rauhala is very cool. He sees how decisions in the EU are made, and is collecting funds to bribe the EU Council Presidency to reconsider software patents in Europe. Can we balance Microsoft and Sony’s bribe money out? Not likely, but hell, I’ve spent money on dumber things.

So the EU Counsil dediced software patents are useful enough for Microsoft so that everybody else can just bite it. The Parliament can still spoil their plan. Let’s see if anyone there realizes what’s going on.