Recordings in Microsoft

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 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