The horror of software patents and Microsoft - take a good look at what we can expect in Europe soon, thanks to idiots like Clemens and Zypries. Yes, exactly this kind of thing would also pass here according to Clemens - data storage methods are one of the examples that are repeatedly brought up from that direction as something worth protecting, even if it's just an algorithm + software. Great. So much for interoperability. But we software patent opponents are all completely uninformed and hysterical and, according to Clement, have no idea.