"Nobody - myself included - can shut down Freenet. Any legal action against me would be just as ridiculous as taking legal action against the manufacturer of womens' tights that were used in a bank robbery" - Founder of Freenet, the company behind software that allows digital music downloads, Irish- man Ian Clarke quoted in the New York Times.
"This country has now become the world's number one software exporter since Spring 2000, which is a most impressive achievement" - The President and Chief Operations Officer of Sun Microsystems Ed Zander speaking at the announcement of 275 new software engineering jobs for Dublin.
News monitor column by Patrick Logue. Computimes edited by Conor Goodman and Conor Pope
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