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2/25/2006 9:35:00 PM

Rumor has it they are pulling out within next 2 years.

This information came to me from previous employee from there.



Iain Fairbanks wrote:
> http://wiki.ffii.org/Navisi...
>
> Microsoft: Give us Software Patents or we Move 800 Jobs Out of Denmark
>
> According to Danish newspaper reports, Bill Gates has been threatening
> the Danish government to move jobs from Denmark to the United States
> should Denmark continue to oppose the software patent directive. While
> Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen denies the reports,
> statements from Navision and from party colleagues of Rasmussen
> partially confirm it.
>
>
> "If I'm to keep my development center in Denmark, then it's a
> requirement that the question of rights becomes resolved. Otherwise, I
> will move it to the USA where I can protect my rights" in a
> conversation with Denmark's prime minister Fogh Rasmussen.