Microsoft is not the best company to talk about patents. They are a software company and in a lot of places in the world mathematical concepts, ideas and softwa

Microsoft is not the best company to talk about patents. They are a software company and in a lot of places in the world mathematical concepts, ideas and software could not be patented. This is the main issue Microsoft wants to change making an universal system, in fact what they want is to export the American system over the other countries. Patents favor the powerful, witch get a monopoly, witch makes money to the powerful, who spends money on new patents, new monopolies. That works great for Microsoft(witch was created when USA software patents didn't exist),and maybe some USA states(all world software needs to be done on Seatle or California), but is bad for the rest of the world, we became a colony, like USA were from Britain. Imagine you are not American, you are an intelligent, smart person of the rest of the world. Would you give external people the monopoly over what you make? Am I not going to think because you bought the exclusive right to it?.