Carlo Piana
Carlo Piana
Carlo Piana is a lawyer by training and a Free Software advocate. A qualified attorney in Italy, Piana has been practicing IT law since 1995, focusing his practice on software, technology, standardization, data protection and digital liberties in general, and serves as external General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe...
case competence dare found helped integrity intimate involved maintain microsoft parties questions themselves
That Microsoft now questions the competency and integrity of a trustee they themselves helped appoint is outrageous. All the parties involved in the case found the trustee showed an intimate competence and understanding. How do they now dare maintain that he is biased?
motive since
Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.
cannot code commitment copyright developers fear free microsoft poisoned seen situation software source
This 'commitment' is poisoned - they do it in a way that worsens the situation for free software: because that source code is under Microsoft copyright, developers who have seen the source code cannot re-implement it in Free Software for fear of copyright violation.
ability appealing legally less move seems
The move is less appealing than it seems up front. We only need the compatibility information, nothing more, nothing less, and the ability to legally use it.