No its not an error in the headline. Cnet reports that the Netherlands patent office has begun transforming a large part of their IT systems from proprietary systems into open source. Somehow the patent office gets a patent spin on this story claiming that “…visitors to the new website can see clearly how much it will cost to apply for a patent. This will ensure that the costs and benefits of using patents become even more transparent, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises” Thats a pretty strange connection.
The real story is that the European patent authorites are not as one eyed as many would like to paint them.