Hi Jan,

It isn't like software (intellectual property, which makes it relevant to the developers on this forum) is unprotected in Europe, but it's still done piece-mill from state to state. Anyway, it's kind of uncanny how this would have fit right in to a thread that was going a couple of weeks ago.

As an outside observer, I watched individual European states rejecting the proposed EU Constitution, and now this, and I find myself wondering if the EU is struggling to make itself irrelevant. Maybe you'd better hold on to some of those marks and francs after all.