Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won’t care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.

I can’t imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved.

Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn’t mix.

Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here...

In open-source software (OSS), Europe is at the forefront,

Given the size of the Linux code, it?s almost certain that it will violate a number of patents, and some of them, such as the ones on the FAT file system, may indeed be held...