][ stefano maffulli

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

I couldn’t agree less with Schneier’s post on Wired: lock-in is bad for users.’  I liked this sentence that explains well how I’m feeling now after having used a Mac for 2 weeks (I promise, I’ll write a long post about this experience in the next days):
With enough lock-in, a company can protect its market [...]

Tags: apple, business, competition, lock-in, microsoft, openstandard

I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]

Tags: apple, business, competition, disruption, floss, gates, google, microsoft, ozzie

Politecnico di Torino and Regione Piemonte have launced SeLiLi, Servizio Licenze Libere, a service to offer information and consulting services on legal, technological and economical matters regarding copyright licenses. Given the credibility of the Politecnico and in particular to the group that maintains the Creative Commons licenses I think they can do a good [...]

Tags: business, competition, free software business, fsf, ftf, non-profit