[governance] something to think about for Rio

[Veni Markovski]

Norbert,
There's something strange.
Everyone considers this a victory also for the free and open source community.
When I put the subject line, I also meant that this is changing the
way important things are happening around the (post)WSIS environment.
Only four years ago Microsoft was tryin to buy good press coverage.
Today they had to pay more than half a billion Euro to the EU and to
comply with the court decision. With regards to affordability of
internet access that's quite an important step. Because regardless of
what some commercial registrants are trying to bring to the attention
of the IGF, the important question is whether people can have internet
access, not whether they can have a domain name or a real IP address,
or a class C, etc.

Veni


On 10/23/07, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
> > http://blog.veni.com/?p=342
> >
> > Read carefully Commissioner Kroes statement.
> > This seems far more important than a number of issues we are discussing
> here.
>
> Alas Microsoft has essentially succeeded in pulling the Commissioner
> over the table in the settlement negotiations, by getting him to
> support Microsoft's strategy for essentially killing by means of
> patents the emerging GPL-based business ecosystem which is Microsoft's
> only serious threat of competition.
>
> http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EU_tells_open_source_to_start_paying_MS_patent_tax
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert.
>
>
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