http://www.hardings.cl/blog Ideas, opinions and references relating IT, FLOSS and Security (among others). Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:59:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very interesting proposal by Larry Rosen and Fred Popowich as explained in an interview on linux.com. The consequences are interesting, particularly regarding dual licensing. One of the issues (whether it is a problem or a benefit depends on your point of view) regarding dual licensing is that the ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2008/04/17/open-source-licensing-based-on-patents-rather-than-copyright/ Una de las consecuencias del súbito interés en todo el mundo por participar en las discusiones de estándares en el área de las Tecnologías de Información es que Chile pasó de ser país observador (O) a ser país participante (P). Extraigo del acta lo siguiente: 1. Respecto del cambio del voto ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2007/10/16/chile-no-ha-votado-en-el-jtc-1/ José Antonio Barriga, National Technology Officer de Microsoft en Chile, habla de FLOSS y la coexistencia con software privativo en su primera entrada de su blog. Primero que nada, creo que es una excelente iniciativa que publique sus opiniones, que finalmente representan también a la empresa para la cual está trabajando. ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2007/08/10/%c2%bfpaises-que-han-adoptado-politicas-de-neutralidad-tecnologica/ En un artículo muy interesante de Francotirador se cuestiona el hecho que no haya habido licitación en algunos puntos relevantes. El argumento de Cristián va por el lado que efectivamente, si bien no existe un pago del Gobierno (o Estado) hacia Microsoft, sí hay costos asociados. Pero creo que esto ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2007/08/08/%c2%bflicitar-o-no-licitar/ The main difference among the free software and open source software concepts are the motivation of the people identifying with each (that is why I tend to use the term FLOSS when I do not want to be specific about either group. From time to time the question of whether ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/12/01/free-software-and-open-source-software/ I am sitting in a seminar dealing with promotion of access to knowledge, mainly through the use of open licenses that provide much more access then the minimum required by law. It has become more clear than ever yo me that the term "intellectual property" is very misleading. Several arguments say ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/11/15/intellectual-property-or-exclusion-rights/ Ed Felten asks interesting questions regarding the Spamhaus.org case. You can read his post for details, but basically, Spamhaus.org has ignored a ruling in which it should pay a plaintiff for damages and publish a declaration stating that it has erroneously published the plaintiff in its "spammers" lists. It might ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/10/12/killing-domain-names-as-means-to-enforce-court-rulings/ OpenBusiness runs a very interesting inteview with Last.FM on their project, website or service, whatever you may call it. This is an interesting iniciative that offers what we could call an "open service", although we still do not have a sound definition for what an open service should entail, but ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/10/05/floss-open-standards-open-services-and-open-infrastructure/ This article in Wired by Bruce Schneier gives another hint at what some people have been arguing for a long time: Liability for software vendors. It describes how fast an organization reacts when there is money in risk. In spite of the promise to focus on security after several worm ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/09/07/putting-money-where-the-security-is-liability/ Many eyes are paying attention to what is happening in Massachusetts with the Open Format requirement. Good coverage is available via several blogs, in which Bob Sutor's blog is probably the most complete and up to date. One of the things I would like to spread a lot more than it ... http://www.hardings.cl/blog/2006/08/20/document-formats-in-chile/