In the UK we've got no defence against US extradition requests, so if the Feds decide that a Brit P2Per has been 'importing or exporting copyright materials' they can haul them across the pond without so much as a jot of testable evidence.
Now that's frightening.
Microsoft has already said it'll be spending north of seven billion dollars a year on its patent program. It's also beens settling old lawsuits and doing licensing deals like they're going out of fashion.
If you don't have a licensing deal with Microsoft, you won't be able to write software.
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In the UK we've got no defence against US extradition requests, so if the Feds decide that a Brit P2Per has been 'importing or exporting copyright materials' they can haul them across the pond without so much as a jot of testable evidence. Now that's frightening.
Microsoft has already said it'll be spending north of seven billion dollars a year on its patent program. It's also beens settling old lawsuits and doing licensing deals like they're going out of fashion.
If you don't have a licensing deal with Microsoft, you won't be able to write software.
That's the gameplan.