The following snippets from a news article contain propaganda terms such as “piracy” and “IPR”. The article also comes from a publication that typically published pro-Microsoft agenda. The intention here is to show you just how Microsoft overrides local laws and pushes software patents onto those who must not accept them.

Yesterday as well as the day before that, some of the press reopened a jar of worms and spoke about Microsoft’s software patents minefield, but bloggers did not pay any attention to Novell’s fight against the free in “Free software”. Novell is just about as guilty as Microsoft because without its participation and pasive endorsement Microsoft’s efforts would hold no water.

Patent news of interest to Free software users: codecs, GNU/Linux, trolls, and Microsoft

How Microsoft uses ActiveSync to shut out Free software with software patents; OOXML patents and other issues revisited; Bilski to be revisited by the Supremes, who can axe software patents in the United States

Companies that screw Free software by paying Microsoft for unnamed software patents grow even closer to Microsoft

While Microsoft intends to intimidate its Free software rivals using software patents, or at least force the foolish ones among them to pay ‘protection money’, the company also gets to grip with the fact that software patents are its enemy.

Why Microsoft's "extortion" is a serious offence that mustn't be overlooked; How Free software deals with software patents at present

The latest analyses and moves from Microsoft, which increasingly relies on software patents in its eternal battle against Free software

The latest news about patents (software in particular) that affect Free software