Interview with Dr. Villanueva

cigarky writes "I think many of us were very impressed by the recent letter of Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez. Linux Today has a followup interview with more in-depth information."

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[direwolf puppy]

More coverage on this entire topic here

Re:The Bill

[oever]

e) Free program (software) is any which use gives the user, without an additional price, the following rights:
d.1) unrestricted execution of the program for any purpose.
d.2) unrestricted access to its source code
d.3) exhaustive inspection of all internal operating mechanisms of the program.
...

Very good: patents are not allowed for government software!
But, hmm, hat does rule d.3 mean?

This is also interesting:
g) Open data format is any digital information coding method that meets the following conditions:
g.1) its complete technical documentation is publicly available.
g.2) the source code for at least one complete reference implementation is publicly available.
g.3) there are no restrictions for writing programs that store, transmit, receive or access data codified this way.

So a standard is not an open format until there is an open source implementation. This means a lot of the stuff by w3.org is not an open format!

Re:FSF mtg. cancelled

[jonathanjo]

Villanueva was once invited to an event in Columbia where he was to meet with the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, and to his great disappointment this event had to be cancelled.

Columbia South Carolina or Columbia Maryland? I hope Villanueva meets with Senator Hollings!

And what's Villanueva doing in North America? Don't they have Free Software events in places like Colombia?

yes, there is

[sT0n3_h34d]

u can check it at here
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