X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/49d923d31a6c0a4509baed5d0059b9a861f7c4be..88ff5bfe8dba917518b12eeb65ce96ed75ea12e9:/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss b/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss index 22ce65c57e..fe336a7f71 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss @@ -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> @@ -1003,8 +1003,10 @@ Standards.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_standards_are_Free_and_Open_as_defined_by_Digistan_.html Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:15:00 +0100 -<p>After trying to compare Ogg Theora to -<ahref="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">the Digistan +<p>After trying to +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Ogg_Theora_a_free_and_open_standard_.html">compare +Ogg Theora</a> to +<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">the Digistan definition</a> 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 @@ -1013,7 +1015,7 @@ JPEG, PNG, SVG and others. But to be able to complete this in a reasonable time frame, I will need help.</p> <p>If you want to help out with this work, please visit -<ahref="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/standard/digistan-analyse">the +<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/standard/digistan-analyse">the wiki pages I have set up for this</a>, 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