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line-height: normal">LEADING DANISH NEWSPAPER B=D8RSEN REPORTS ON T= HREATS BY MICROSOFT'S GATES AGAINST DANISH PRIME MINISTER RASMUSSEN</span= > <br /> <br /> <span style=3D"font-size: 18px; line-height: normal"><span style=3D"font-= style: italic">According to today's issue of leading Danish newspaper B=F8= rsen, Bill Gates threatened to kill 800 Danish jobs if Denmark opposed so= ftware patent directive -- Philips said to have threatened Dutch governme= nt, rumors of more such blackmail</span></span> <br /> <br /> <span style=3D"font-size: 14px; line-height: normal">Brussels (15 Februar= y 2005). In today's edition, Danish financial newspaper B=F8rsen reports= that Microsoft founder Bill Gates threatened the Danish government in co= nnection with software patents. According to the article, Gates told Ras= mussen and two Danish ministers in November that he would kill all 800 jo= bs in Navision, a Danish company acquired by Microsoft in 2002, unless th= e EU were to quickly decide to legalize software patents through a direct= ive. Denmark is a country with only 5 million inhabitants and a relative= ly small high-tech sector to which the loss of 800 jobs would have signif= icant implications. <br /> <br /> It would not be the first threat of its kind. A group of large corporati= ons including Philips is reported to have previously threatened European = governments to outsource all of their European software development jobs = to low-wage countries unless the EU were to allow patents on software thr= ough the directive that is currently being worked on. Hans Streng, chief= executive of Philips' software division, was quoted by Dutch newspaper A= lgemeen Dagblad in the summer for publicly making the threat in question.= <br /> <br /> In January, leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported on a letter add= ressed by the Polish subsidiaries of Siemens, Nokia, Philips, Ericsson an= d Alcatel to Poland's prime minister Marek Belka. The exact content of t= he letter was not disclosed but it is said to have indicated that the res= pective companies would reconsider making investments in Poland if the Po= lish government upheld its resistance to the legalization of software pat= ents in the EU. <br /> <br /> "It's utterly despicable to use the basis of people's livelihood for a di= sgusting threat", said Florian Mueller, the manager of the pan-European N= oSoftwarePatents.com campaign. He claims to have been an earwitness to s= uch a threat by a Philips official, and to have learned from political so= urces about similar threats by other corporations. "The country in which= you develop a technology has nothing to do with where you can take out p= atents. If they move jobs to Asia, they won't get a single additional pa= tent, neither in Asia nor in Europe. If you warn politicians of conseque= nces that are directly related to a legislative issue, that's acceptable.= If you threaten with causing damage that has no factual connection what= soever, then it's blackmail. Plain and simple." <br /> <br /> He pointed out that the China Business Daily recently reported on the hig= h patent output of Philips' plant in Shanghai. "Companies like Philips d= on't want software patents to protect the work of their European employee= s against Asian imitators. Quite the opposite: They want patents on soft= ware they develop in Asia, and then want to use those patents against Eur= ope's small and medium-sized enterprises." <br /> <br /> In Mueller's opinion, those media reports on political blackmail "show th= e enormous desperation of those who cannot make a case for something as u= njust as software patents on the basis of economic reason". The campaign= er called on Europe's political leaders to not bow to any such threats: = "The EU must not be blackmailable." <br /> <br /> On Thursday (17 February), the European Parliament's Conference of Presid= ents is widely anticipated to support the request of its Legal Affairs Co= mmittee to restart the entire legislative process on the software patent = directive. The request will then be communicated by the President of the= EP to the European Commission, which has to decide on how to proceed. T= he EU Council originally also planned to formally adopt its "Common Posit= ion" that day but has had to postpone plans due to resistance by some cou= ntry governments and national parliaments. This month, three parliaments= have already spoken out against the Council's proposal, and a fourth one= (the German Bundestag) is scheduled to follow suit on Thursday evening. <br /> <br /> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold">References to Relevant Materials</span>= <br /> <br /> Danish newspaper report on alleged threats by Microsoft's Bill Gates agai= nst Danish government: <br /> <a href=3D"http://www.borsen.dk/dagens-nyheder/?ids[]=3D70135" target=3D"= _blank" class=3D"postlink">http://www.borsen.dk/dagens-nyheder/?ids[]=3D7= 0135</a> <br /> <br /> Dutch report on threats by Philips' Hans Streng against Dutch government:= <br /> <a href=3D"http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/19599.phtml" target=3D"_blank" = class=3D"postlink">http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/19599.phtml</a> <br /> <br /> Polish newspaper report on letter by Siemens, Nokia, Philips, Ericsson an= d Alcatel to Polish prime minister: <br /> <a href=3D"http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,33181,2513286.html" t= arget=3D"_blank" class=3D"postlink">http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodark= a/1,33181,2513286.html</a> <br /> <br /> China Business Daily report on Philips' patenting activity in Shanghai: <br /> <a href=3D"http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3D219"= target=3D"_blank" class=3D"postlink">http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ph= pBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3D219</a> <br /> <br /> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold">Press Conference in Brussels on 17 Febr= uary</span> <br /> <br /> NoSoftwarePatents.com will, in conjunction with the FFII, hold a press co= nference in Brussels on Thursday, 17 February 2005, from 1:30 PM to 2:30 = PM in the Zurich room of the Marriott Renaissance Hotel on Rue du Parnass= e, only a stone's throw from Place du Luxembourg and the European Parliam= ent. <br /> <br /> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold">About the NoSoftwarePatents.com Campaig= n</span> <br /> <br /> The NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign was launched on October 20th and is su= pported by three IT companies (1&amp;1, Red Hat, and MySQL AB). The view= s expressed by the campaign are those of the campaign manager and not nec= essarily those of the aforementioned companies. <br /> <br /> Through Web content in 17 languages, the campaign addresses a pan-Europea= n audience. 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