[ Thanks to Jeremy
Allison for this link. ]
“Carlo Piana is part of a motley brigade of software activists
and lawyers who have forced even the most dapper Microsoft
executives to loosen a button or two in court here this past
week.“It was only two years ago that Piana, a lawyer from Milan with
a dark scraggly beard and a passion for technology, woke up to news
that the European Union had slapped Microsoft with a record fine of
€497 million, or $627.5 million at current exchange rates, for
abusing its dominant position in the software market by designing
and marketing software in ways that exclude rivals from the
market…”
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