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@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ General Manager of Microsoft Perú</p>
 
 <p>In respect of the guarantee:</p> 
 
-A<p>s you know perfectly well, or could find out by reading the "End User License Agreement" of the products you license, in the great majority of cases the guarantees are limited to replacement of the storage medium in case of defects, but in no case is compensation given for direct or indirect damages, loss of profits, etc... If as a result of a security bug in one of your products, not fixed in time by yourselves, an attacker managed to compromise crucial State systems, what guarantees, reparations and compensation would your company make in accordance with your licensing conditions? The guarantees of proprietary software, inasmuch as programs are delivered ``AS IS'', that is, in the state in which they are, with no additional responsibility of the provider in respect of function, in no way differ from those normal with free software.</p> 
+<p>As you know perfectly well, or could find out by reading the "End User License Agreement" of the products you license, in the great majority of cases the guarantees are limited to replacement of the storage medium in case of defects, but in no case is compensation given for direct or indirect damages, loss of profits, etc... If as a result of a security bug in one of your products, not fixed in time by yourselves, an attacker managed to compromise crucial State systems, what guarantees, reparations and compensation would your company make in accordance with your licensing conditions? The guarantees of proprietary software, inasmuch as programs are delivered ``AS IS'', that is, in the state in which they are, with no additional responsibility of the provider in respect of function, in no way differ from those normal with free software.</p> 
 
 <p>On Intellectual Property:</p> 
 
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ them.  Both Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation have looked into
 this and decided to implement Ogg Theora support in their browsers
 without paying any royalties.  For now the claims from MPEG-LA and
 Steve Jobs seem more like FUD to scare people to use the H.264 codec
-than any real problem with Ogg Theora.
+than any real problem with Ogg Theora.</p>
 
 <p><strong>No constraints on re-use?</strong></p>
 
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ see if they are free and open standards.</p>
 "<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">Free and
 Open Standard</a>" is that this is a new term, and thus the meaning of
 the term has been decided by Digistan.  The term "Open Standard" has
-become so misunderstood that it is no longer useful very when talking
+become so misunderstood that it is no longer very useful when talking
 about standards.  One end up discussing which definition is the best
 one and with such frame the only one gaining are the proponents of
 de-facto standards and proprietary solutions.</p>
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ free basis.</li>
 </ul>
 </blockquote>
 
-<p>Another one originates from by friends over at
+<p>Another one originates from my friends over at
 <a href="http://www.dkuug.dk/">DKUUG</a>, who coined and gathered
 support for <a href="http://www.aaben-standard.dk/">this
 definition</a> in 2004.  It even made it into the Danish parlament as
@@ -997,5 +997,35 @@ Standards.</p>
 </description>
        </item>
        
+       <item>
+               <title>What standards are Free and Open as defined by Digistan?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_standards_are_Free_and_Open_as_defined_by_Digistan_.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_standards_are_Free_and_Open_as_defined_by_Digistan_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>
+&lt;p&gt;After trying to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Ogg_Theora_a_free_and_open_standard_.html&quot;&gt;compare
+Ogg Theora&lt;/a&gt; to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;the Digistan
+definition&lt;/a&gt; of a free and open standard, I concluded that this need
+to be done for more standards and started on a framework for doing
+this.  As a start, I want to get the status for all the standards in
+the Norwegian reference directory, which include UTF-8, HTML, PDF, ODF,
+JPEG, PNG, SVG and others.  But to be able to complete this in a
+reasonable time frame, I will need help.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with this work, please visit
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/standard/digistan-analyse&quot;&gt;the
+wiki pages I have set up for this&lt;/a&gt;, and let me know that you want
+to help out.  The IRC channel #nuug on irc.freenode.net is a good
+place to coordinate this for now, as it is the IRC channel for the
+NUUG association where I have created the framework (I am the leader
+of the Norwegian Unix User Group).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The framework is still forming, and a lot is left to do.  Do not be
+scared by the sketchy form of the current pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
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