[Am-info] "......Ireland seems to be playing lapdog for the US."

[Fred Miller]

"......Ireland seems to be playing lapdog for the US." 

"The Irish Presidency explains on its website that it is sponsored by 
Microsoft. Ireland is "the largest software-exporting country in Europe," 
thanks to a fiscal policy which makes it a tax haven for large US companies: 
it has a tax rate on patent revenues of 0%."

Fred

http://swpat.ffii.org/journal/04/cons0507/index.en.html#boogerd

-- 
"The only secure Microsoft software is what's still
shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)