2004-06-01 Hindrup Andersen: Monti creating new Microsoft cases
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Bent Hindrup Andersen (MEP, DK, EDD) received an answer to his previous inquiry to Commissioner of Competition Mario Monti on software patents.
Hindrup Andersen comments on Monti's reply as follows:
- Apparently, Monti agrees in my criticism and the importance of open standards, fair competition and protection of interoperability. But it seems as if the Commissioner wants it both ways. He wants to ensure the free competition, open standards and free software and at the same time he supports his colleagues in pushing for software patents within the EU and making them rigidly enforcable againts file formats and protocols. Software patents block the interoperabillity that we all really want. If Commissioner Monti gets what he is calling for, I am afraid that we will witness lots of new Microsoft cases in the future.
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