IPV6
Da oggi, questo sito web è IPV6 ready. Canali: Interoperabilità Tipo di Entry: Varie English
IPV6
As of today, this website is IPV6 ready. Canali: Interoperability Tipo di Entry: Miscellanea Italian
Nortel, Google and the value of patents
This morning I have read this article on Tech Crunch mentioning that – great news – one of the senior executives of Google has finally said it loud what we have thought for years: [most] software patents are detrimental to innovation. Only, he falls short of the point, because he asks for a “real patent reform,” whereas the only suitable reform is a software patent abolition (if not an entire patent […]
PCT, PDA, PEC
Da qualche anno sto seguendo dietro le quinte l'evoluzione dei servizi informatici per il processo civile. Non ho tempo né voglia di fare un intervento di quelli esaustivi, completi e accattivanti. Altri ne hanno scritti, una risorsa eccellente per cominciare è il sito del Ministero. Le informazioni sono in divenire molto rapido, per cui quello che è stato scritto sei mesi fa oggi èmolto probabilmente inaccurato in più di un […]
Samba case hearing: How Microsoft’s gamble backfired
Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, publishes a blog post on the hearing in the Microsoft v Commission case (T-167/08) dealing with the 899 million euro fine for failing to offer reasonable and non discriminatory condition for revealing secret interoperability information, AKA the “no patent” agreement that the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation has subsequently negotiated to provide same information to Samba Team and others. The article is offered […]
New offices, new people
A blog is not a blog if I don't report things that don't interest my readers but concern me. So let me deviate a bit from my usual cointenance and announce a new step in my carreer. As if you bother. In short, I have moved offices and I am now working with new people in the gorgeous and historic Palazzo Serbelloni. There I will team up with more people in Array, […]
Doors opened at Openoffice
A few minutes ago, Oracle has announced that Openoffice.org, the ODF-based Free Software suite for office productivity, will become a community developed project. In plain English, no more dual licensing, no more proprietary version, go ahead to incoming patches. Woot! I am very happy to hear about this move, which was not entirely unexpected (by me, at least). To tell all the truth, reaching this point was my secret plan […]
Completamento automatico implica responsabilità
Note for English readers: this is a translation. Original version is available clicking “English” at the bottom of the article Non so come mai, ma il gatto era fuori del sacco anche prima di avere io stesso tutti i dettagli. Un'ordinanza del Tribunale di Milano ha confermato, con una motivazione insolitamente dettagliata, un'altra ordinanza dello stesso Tribunale e ha imposto a Google di filtrare alcuni “suggerimenti di ricerca” ritenuti potenzialmente […]
Autocompletion brings liability
I don't know how, but the cat was out of the bag even before I had full details of it. An order of the Court of Milano confirmed with an unusually detailed opinion another order of the same Court imposing Google to filter out libelous “search suggestions”. I am lead counsel in the litigation, so it is inappropriate for me to go into details or to praise the order. All I […]
Adieu Analitics, time to move on
Time to switch monitoring tools, and adopting Free Software all the way. So far, as declared in the information pages, I have used Google Analytics to collect some stats on the usage. Not anymore. Now I am using Piwik, a Free Software replacement that does its job easily and cleanly. Google Analytics has gone through a series of data protection enquiries although so far I have no news that any authority […]