Recordings in European Commission

A reflection on the Microsoft antitrust penalty hearing 2006

Carlo Piana

“Money is not a problem for them.”

A short interview that was taken right after the from on a historical day in the Microsoft antitrust penalty hearings in Brussels, 30 March 2006.

The interviewee is Carlo Piana from Tamos, Piana & Partners (Milano) who served as a counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe and an intervenor during the hearing.

Keywords: Brussels, Carlo Piana, Computer law, Criticism of Microsoft, English, European Commission, Free Software Foundation Europe, GNU General Public License, Microsoft

Understanding Software Patents

Hartmut Pilch

“My message to the patent world is: Either get back to the doctrines of forces of nature or face the elimination of your system.”

Hartmut Pilch of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) gives insights into the history of patent law, the theoretical shortcomings of the concept of software patents and their consequences.

Keywords: English, European Commission, European Parliament, FFII, Hartmut Pilch, Immanuel Kant, Josef Kohler, Othmas Karas, Paraflows 06, Vienna, Werner von Siemens