AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU . . . Florian Mueller, the manager of a European anti-software patent campaign (and a favorite whipping boy of this blog), is quitting his post as an anti-patent crusader and is returning to his computer games business. As campaign manager of the NoSoftwarePatents.com organization, Mueller stirred up opposition to software patents and to Microsoft, the leading proponent of software patents.

Mueller said he is folding http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/, although its work will be carried on by another anti-software patent organization, the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Hartmut Pilch is the president of the FFII, based in Munich.