Recordings in Computer law

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

Software and Community in the Early 21st Century

Eben Moglen, Paul Everitt

“It began as a moral question. […] But it becomes along the way also a window into the economic organization of the human society in the 21st century.”

Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, gives a keynote at the October 2006 Plone conference in Seattle.

Keywords: Business, Columbia University, Computer law, Copyleft licensing, Eben Moglen, Education, English, European Union, FLOSS, Free software, GNU General Public License, Larry Lessig, Mary Lou Jepsen, open content, Operating system, Paul Everitt, Paul Everitt, Richard Stallman, Richard Stallman, Seattle, Social Issues, Steve Ballmer

Software and Community in the Early 21st Century

Eben Moglen, Paul Everitt

“It began as a moral question. […] But it becomes along the way also a window into the economic organization of the human society in the 21st century.”

Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, gives a keynote at the October 2006 Plone conference in Seattle.

Keywords: Business, Columbia University, Computer law, Copyleft licensing, Eben Moglen, Education, English, European Union, FLOSS, Free software, GNU General Public License, Larry Lessig, Mary Lou Jepsen, open content, Operating system, Paul Everitt, Paul Everitt, Richard Stallman, Richard Stallman, Seattle, Social Issues, Steve Ballmer

Software and Community in the Early 21st Century

Eben Moglen, Paul Everitt

“It began as a moral question. […] But it becomes along the way also a window into the economic organization of the human society in the 21st century.”

Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, gives a keynote at the October 2006 Plone conference in Seattle.

Keywords: Business, Columbia University, Computer law, Copyleft licensing, Eben Moglen, Education, English, European Union, FLOSS, Free software, GNU General Public License, Larry Lessig, Mary Lou Jepsen, open content, Operating system, Paul Everitt, Paul Everitt, Richard Stallman, Richard Stallman, Seattle, Social Issues, Steve Ballmer

Software Monopolies and Open Source

Danese Cooper

 “And so they decided – because they could – to write their own world!”

Danese Cooper, board member of the Open Source Initiative, gives a short introduction about the relationship between software companies, software patents and the concept of Open Source.

Keywords: Computer law, Danese Cooper, English, FLOSS, Jonathan Schwartz, Microsoft, Proprietary software, Social information processing, Software licenses, Software patent, Standards, Steve Ballmer