He says:

The context of the software patent debate is vast. To understand it fully we need to look at globalisation, at the impact of cheap internet-based communications on service industries over the last decades, at political competition between major trading blocks and countries, at free and open software, at the rise in IP "licensing" as a major business.

and:

The solution to the software patents problem in Europe lies in the creation of a proper and democratic political process which ensures that parasitical industries cannot buy and lobby their way to owning public property, and enforcing that through self-constructed kangaroo courts.