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Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory. Because free -software developers are working in a global marked, it does not really +software developers are working in a global market, it does not really help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable in Norway. The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here. I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more @@ -539,6 +539,16 @@ from Simon Phipps (RAND: Not So Reasonable?).

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Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a +blog +post from Glyn Moody over at Computer World UK warning about the +same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government. I +can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for +the +hearing taking place at the moment (respond before 2012-04-27). +It proposes to require video conferencing standards including +specifications with RAND terms.

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+ Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon +
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+ 22nd April 2012 +
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I +januar +i fjor startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem +som har stemt hva på Stortinget +enklere tilgjengelig. I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med +organisasjonen Holder de ord +som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.

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Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om +hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til +stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i +dag. Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men +datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk. Begge datasettene er +tilgjengelig via +git.

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På +Go Open i morgen lanserer +NUUG sammen med Holder de ord en +test-tjeneste som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og +hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor. Du får herved mulighet +til å ta en sniktitt.

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+ HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean? +
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+ 26th April 2012 +
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In an +article today published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer +Eirik Helland Urke reports +that the video editor application included with +HTC One +X have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly +based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating: + +

+"Drøy +brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv +kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat" +

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I quickly translated it to this English message:

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+"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos +commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately." +

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I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but +suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I +discovered +with my Canon IXUS 130. The HTC One X specification specifies that +the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for +video. AMR is +Adaptive +Multi-Rate audio codec with patents which according to the +Wikipedia article require an license agreement with +VoiceAge. MP4 is +MPEG4 with +H.264, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement +with MPEG-LA.

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I know why I prefer +free and open +standards also for video.

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+ + + Tags: digistan, english, multimedia, personvern, standard, video, web. + + +
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