Corruption and bullying

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Contents 1 Sock puppets 2 Illegal access to politicians 3 Bill Gates bullys Denmark 4 Related pages on en.swpat.org 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Sock puppets

When an organisation invents a new persona to represent their interests, but with a different image, that's a sock puppet. Examples:

• Campaign for creativity

[edit] Illegal access to politicians

• The first draft of the EU software patents directive, which should be written by the European Commission, had "Francois Mingarance" (BSA lobbyist) as the author in the file's properties.^[1][2]

[edit] Bill Gates bullys Denmark

In February 2005, a few months before the European Parliament's second vote on the EU software patents directive, Bill Gates met with the Prime Minister of Denmark plus two government Ministers. At the meeting, Gates threatened to fire 800 Danish software developers: "I must have clarity on the rights issue. Otherwise I will move to the US, where I can protect my rights".^[3]

[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org

• Some SMEs like software patents myth
• Fake representatives of free software

[edit] External links

• Aborted Whitehouse Study on Software Patents 1998 - "IBM kills White House software patent study"

[edit] References

1. ↑ http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2104807,00.htm
2. ↑ http://www.stacken.kth.se/~abo/tmp/proposal.png
3. ↑ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231