Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]
On 14/04/12 16:13, Norman Silverstone wrote: < big snip> Update 2012: Proprietary lobby triumphs in first open standards showdown http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/04/proprietary-lobby-triumphs-in.html -- Is this not yet another example of the ineptness of the present Government and its subservience to big business. Norman not really, the government set up the consultations announced them, some people turned up from the open standards community, lots of people turned up from the proprietary companies (including people being flown in from America to attend) http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/events/ Round tables 3 and 2 have not happened yet, please do try to turn up if you can (I know it is hard if you don't have someone paying you to go). The outcome of all this won't be decided on a show of hands from the round table meetings, they just want feedback from those. The very best thing you can do whilst sat in the comfort of your own home or office is to fill out the consultation form: http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/question1/ http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/question2/ http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/question3/ you can see on this the links to see what others have said. All responses to the consultation will be published (I will do a freedom of information request for the ones that are not published on the website when the consultation closes) and you can see that the general consensus of the published written responses is decidedly in favour of real open standards. If you are confused about what the fuss is all about, it is whether "open standard" should be allowed to contain patents that are licensed under FRAND terms. FRAND stands for the excellent sounding "Fair Reasonable and Non Discriminatory" but this is a big problem. The theory is that you can have a patent in an open standard that requires a modest payment to the license holder. So for example, lets take a fictional video format called MPVC which is just wonderful at compressing pictures of lots of people, but it bears a royalty of £0.01 per user. Sounds fine, it doesn't cost much, people can make set-top boxes and pay their penny, parliament streams in MPVC and mandates the use of MPVC for various other things. Now if someone wants to write an MPVC decoder and distribute it as Free Software under the GPL they can't because they can't count the users and make the payment to the license holder. This is a real means for proprietary companies to block competition from Free Software. There is more about this here and elsewhere on the web: http://opensource.com/law/11/1/open-standards-and-royalty-problem Go fill out that consultation. I did, you can read my responses on the website. Alan. -- The Open Learning Centre is rebranding, find out about our new name and look at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders
On 14/04/12 16:31, Bill Baker wrote: Alan, would it be "accwptable" to ask for one purely on the basis that when saying "you really ought to try this" to those I'm trying to convert - it is more convincing / " professional to show a cd from a "professonal" covered CD wrapper? After all - many years ago - that's how I got here. It worked for me - and still works for others - break the barrier& convince of the goodness! If an acceptable reason for nicking one our copies I will gladly spend the postage etc. Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -- -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -Free as in Freedom-- absolutely fine, I am more than happy to stuff an envelope with as many as will fit for you to hand out. Anyone who has an organized means to hand out lots of them can ask for a box of 75 (folk who do computer fairs, have a shop or work in a university or whatever, just tell me how you are going to get them distributed and you can have them) Alan. -- The Open Learning Centre is rebranding, find out about our new name and look at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 13:26 +0100, Andres Muniz wrote: > Smurf effect removed! Thanks! > Finally worked for me by going to nvidia version 173. System > settings>drivers it was set on the [recomended] > > How Occam's Razor Works Occam's Razor is a line of reasoning that says the simplest answer is often correct. ;) -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -- -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -Free as in Freedom-- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong
Smurf effect removed! Thanks! Finally worked for me by going to nvidia version 173. System settings>drivers it was set on the [recomended] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]
On 14/04/12 16:41, Bruno Girin wrote: > them getting more and louder > feedback from big business, who have the funds to engage in lobbying. Absolutely! What would you do if your entire basis of an easy revenue stream became instantly threatened? Big business will *not* let go, it is not useful to blame the government, just as it is not useful to blame the captain of a sinking ship you find yourself on! It may be a *correct* diagnosis of responsibilty, however, the objective is to get a good outcome. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
