Oct
07
2009
My good friend Carlo Piana, the lawyer that helped Samba and FSFE in the antitrust trial Microsoft against the European Commission, says today:
priority #1 is to keep a close eye on the only overdominant company in the IT market
But given the outcome of the trial, with Microsoft getting a ‘get out of jail free’ card, [...]
Tags: antitrust, competition, ec, eu, microsoft
Apr
22
2008
Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’ As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’ I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source,” as Ozzie said.
Roberto wrote a [...]
Tags: antitrust, business, floss, free software, innovation, interoperability, microsoft, ozzie, strategy
Dec
20
2007
Standards can be a Royal PITA and every developer and hacker knows that. But for users they’re the only way not to go crazy. Web standards give users the possibility to connect to the Internet from any device and blog, check email, get and make information. The debate is heating up on [...]
Tags: antitrust, ethics, IE, interoperability, microsoft, open standards, opera, W3C
Dec
18
2007
Here we are again with the European Commission being asked by a competitor to remind Microsoft that competition doesn’t mean abuse of dominant position. I have a sense of deja-vu. Opera Software has asked the EC to investigate if Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the [...]
Tags: antitrust, IE, interoperability, microsoft, open standards, opera, W3C