ComputerWorld.dk has published an article which treats the patent issue as one of free vs proprietary software and in general argues along lines which resemble those of the SCO PR department:
Open source destroys danish innovation
The story originated from the fact that three small Danish software companies - Kapow, ConfigIt and PremitTech - had been granted a meeting with the Committee on Europe in the Danish parlament to complain about the European Parliament's amendments to the proposed software patent directive.
The following week both Danish it-industry organisations, IT-Brancheforeningen and ITEK, came out very strongly in support of these companies, with very strong warnings about the EP-changes.
On a danish mailing list the following was dug out:
- "Danish Internet Ventures" is a Kapow Investor:
http://www.ivs.dk/portfolio/ Klaus Holse Andersen came to MS Denmark in 2001 as CEO. He's earlier been CEO of Internet Ventures.
http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/msdk/content/profiles.asp Premitech seems to have close ties to MS as well:
http://www.premitech.dk/p403.htm "Chairman of the Board: Klaus Holse Andersen Mr. Klaus Holse Andersen is the EMEA Vice president of Microsoft. Klaus Holse Andersen has held Danish as well as international top management positions within large software corporations such as Oracle and Microsoft. He is the former CEO of
LicEnergy, a European software company, and the former CEO of venture capital company IVS in Denmark. Klaus Holse Andersen also serves as Board Member in a number of IT companies." ConfigIT is also somewhat connected to MS:
http://www.it.edu/people/jl/ "I am currently on leave, visiting Microsoft Research in Redmond, Seattle. Here I am a part of the Software Productivity Tools group and work on the
SLAM project. ... I am a co-founder of the IT company ConfigIt Software." They had a capital infusion recently (2002?) - dunno by whom though.
http://www.videnskabsministeriet.dk/fsk/publ/2002/itforskningsstrategi/it-forskningsstrategi.htm
No decent conspiracy theorist would need more than that 
So far the three companies have not explained in public any examples of the precious "intellectual property" which they believe will lack "protection" or be "stolen" if they do not obtain software patents.
See also
o Microsoft and Software Patents
o Media Watch: Many, but not all, IDG publications
- have recently been very pro-patent and pro-big-business. In particular the Brussels correspondent of IDG, Paul Meller, is supplying the IDG publications with systematically biased news.
o danish example of a patentinfringing videostore -- this should have opened Vibeke Hjortlund's eyes.
o Danish Software Patent Site edited by
- Carsten Svaneborg with support from danish associations and companies.
