"If I should keep my development center in Denmark I require that, there will be an clarification regarding the current patentlaws. Or else I will move it to USA where I can protect the my rights."
Well, we all knew how Bill Gates are running the show but this a new one to threatend a country that they will loose some 800 Navision developers unless the EU passed the directive for the new software patents laws in Europe.
Microsoft bought the Danish Navision development center during 2002 that was a result of a merger betwen Navision and Damgaard.
Source: Børsen