The Christian religion explains the mess of the world we live in with the Original Sin that has destroyed the good nature that would otherwise be in us. The Original Sin cannot be undone but Baptism and adherence to the Religion's precepts promise to make us reborn people. How can this help sorting out the European mess experienced of these days? Here, too, we have an original sin: greedy Greek politicians bent on lighting new debts from greedier bankers bent…
Leonardo has been invited to give a speech at Chengkung University with the title Multimedia technologies for improved 3D user experience.
Leonardo gave the keynote speech on the opening day at 3DSA with the title The Long March to 3D Video.
Leonardo has given a lecture on Standardisation: The MPEG experience at University of Geneva.
Some think that engineers are needed to undo the confusion created by others. As an engineer I note that the current use of the term "broadband" is most confusing. Depending on countries, people, context, it can mean anything from 2 Mbit/s asymmetric to 100 Mbit/s symmetric access. The low end of "broadband" can be obtained with a judicious use of existing infrastructure, but various degrees of new infrastructure is required for the high end. Is it too much to ask…
Carlo Piana, a law attorney specialising in the Open Source Software (OSS) practice he calls "Free Software", submits a proposal for an "MXM Public Licence" to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on behalf of Leonardo. The proposal basically extends the provisions of the Mozilla Public Licence (MPL 1.1) where (legal concepts expressed by a non-legal person) the originator of the code releases the copyright of the code, the patents that are relevant to exercise the code that he may hold, but…
