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A reflection on the Microsoft antitrust penalty hearing 2006

Piana, Carlo

“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.

  • Date of recording: 2006-03-31
  • Duration: 14:02
  • Language of recording: English

Software and Community in the Early 21st Century

Eben Moglen [Source: Wikipedia]

“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.

  • Date of recording: 2006-09-09
  • Duration: 67:19
  • Language of recording: English

Software Monopolies and Open Source

Danese Cooper [Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org]

“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.

  • Date of recording: 2005-01-21
  • Duration: 6:07
  • Language of recording: English
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