Esto sí que es un texto motivado y bien escrito. Vamos, igual que las
leyes de asociaciones de nuestro país. En serio, he quedado
impresionado. Estoy pensando en imprimirlo y colgarlo en el armario de
mi cuarto.

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El jue, 10-04-2003 a las 16:27, Pablo Lopez Cienfuegos escribió:
> Buenas:
>
> Un texto con una serie de ideas para convencer de las bondades del
> software libre a los oprimidos. Perfectamente aplicables al caso de la
> Administración.
>
> Un saludo.
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> From: Orlando Vidal <orlandov@redhat.com>
> To: socios@listas.hispalinux.es
> Subject: [Socios-HispaLinux] Universidad de Buffalo Apoya SW Libre
> Date: 09 Apr 2003 03:54:30 -0400
>
> No sé si ya informaron esto pero lo adjunto aun.
>
> El senado de la U. de Buffalo, estado de NY apoya SW Libre mediante una
> resolución. Mencionan a Linux y Oo.
>
> Buen ejemplo por si les interesa:
> http://orange.math.buffalo.edu/csc/resolution2_april2003_approved.html
>
>
> RESOLUTION FOR UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OF OPEN SOFTWARE AND STANDARDS
>
>
> Approved by the Faculty Senate, University at Buffalo, State University of New
> York, April 1, 2003.
>
>
> 1 WHEREAS, direct unmediated unfettered access to information is fundamental
> and essential to scholarly inquiry, academic dialog, research, the advancement
> of research methods, academic freedom, and freedom of speech; and
>
>
>
>
> 2 WHEREAS, complete control by a computer-user of the computer's operating
> system and hardware is essential to the use and adaptation of computers in
> research and to the preservation of privacy; and
>
>
>
>
> 3 WHEREAS, the free flow of information has for many years been hampered by
> incompatibilities between Microsoft software and non-Microsoft systems caused
> by Microsoft-specific modifications to open protocols (such as Kerberos[1]),
> document formats (such as HTML[2]), and programming languages (such as Java
> [3]); and
>
>
>
>
> 4 WHEREAS, there appears to be significant risk that future Microsoft operating
> systems will serve to curtail the rights of scholars and the public to Fair Use
> of copyrighted material, as is suggested by Microsoft's patent for a "Digital
> Rights Management Operating System" (US Patent #6330670, Dec. 2001)[4], and its
> development of Palladium[5] and Secure Audio Path[6], which are technologies
> that prevent direct access by computer users to data on their own computers; and
>
>
>
>
> 5a WHEREAS, the restrictions imposed by the license agreement of the web-page
> composition tool Microsoft Frontpage 2002, which states "You may not use the
> Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC,
> Expedia, or their products or services"[7], are an unacceptable restriction of
> freedom of expression; and
>
>
>
>
> 5b WHEREAS, the "security patch" Q320920 for Windows Media Player, which gives
> to Microsoft remote administration privileges on the user's computer and the
> right to "disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other
> software on your computer"[8], involves a substantial surrender of control and
> privacy on the part of the computer-user; and
>
>
>
>
> 5c WHEREAS, the fact that Windows Media Player logs and reports to Microsoft
> every instance of access to a DVD by the user[9] is a troubling invasion of
> privacy; and
>
>
>
>
> 6 WHEREAS, a closed-source proprietary operating system such as Microsoft
> Windows cannot be modified by the user to accommodate specific research or
> personal needs[10]; and
>
>
>
>
> 7 WHEREAS, excessive dependence of the University at Buffalo on a single
> supplier of proprietary operating systems and/or application software renders
> the University powerless to resist unreasonable price increases for software
> licenses and other unreasonable demands such as license changes forbidding
> benchmarking[11] or reverse-engineering for compatibility; and
>
>
>
>
> 8 WHEREAS, the use of closed proprietary document formats and information
> management systems to store the work of faculty, students, and staff limits the
> ways these works can be accessed and archived, and jeopardizes access itself in
> the long term; and
>
>
>
>
> 9 WHEREAS, open-source, or "free" software provides an alternative to
> proprietary operating systems and application software that is robust, reliable
> and trustworthy, and provides a means for the University community to retain
> complete control of its computer hardware and software, and to retain the
> rights of Fair Use of information, and preserve the means to adapt computer
> systems to specific research and personal needs; and
>
>
>
>
> 10 WHEREAS, significant savings can be achieved by the use of open-source
> software, which has (in almost all cases) zero licensing costs, and requires no
> involuntary upgrades such as are an integral part of the current UB Microsoft
> Campus Agreement; and
>
>
>
>
> 11 WHEREAS, for the reasons enumerated above, the exclusive or predominant use
> of proprietary operating systems and application software is detrimental to the
> core missions of the University at Buffalo; and
>
>
>
>
> 12 WHEREAS, open-source software provides an alternative through whose use the
> core missions of the University at Buffalo can be preserved, nurtured, and
> enhanced; now, therefore, be it
>
>
>
>
> 13 RESOLVED that the Faculty of the University at Buffalo call on the
> University to provide support for the use by interested students, faculty, and
> administrators of the GNU/Linux operating system;
> and be it further
>
>
>
>
> 14 RESOLVED that the Faculty of the University at Buffalo call on the
> University to provide support for the use by students, faculty, and
> administrators, of OpenOffice and/or other open-source productivity suites; and
> be it further
>
>
>
>
> 15 RESOLVED that the Faculty of the University at Buffalo call on the
> University to provide support for the use by students, faculty, and
> administrators, of open-source alternatives to proprietary application software
> wherever possible; and be it further
>
>
>
>
> 16 RESOLVED that the Faculty of the University at Buffalo call on the
> University to implement a policy of promoting open document formats and
> communication protocols wherever possible and, in the case of broadcast
> announcements and other documents intended for a general audience, discouraging
> the use of secret and proprietary formats (such as Microsoft Word format) in
> favor of open formats (such as plain text or HTML) that are universally
> accessible.
>
> NOTES AND REFERENCES:
>
> [1] See The Industry Standard, May 11, 2000:
> http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14996,00.html.
>
> [2] "It was in this meeting that Microsoft executives said they intended
> to "embrace, extend, extinguish" competing technologies, including Internet
> standard HTML, McGeady [Intel Vice President and Government witness] said.",
>
> ZDNet News, November 8, 1998, http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-512681.html?
> legacy=zdnn.
>
> [3] See, for example, Java World, December 1998,
>
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1998/jw-12-injunction.html
>
> "...the injunction requires Microsoft to stop shipping incompatible versions of
> the virtual machine and to support the standard native-language interface (JNI)
> in any versions it does ship. It requires Microsoft to stop shipping the
> current version of its language development environments, to make the standard-
> Java mode of its language compiler the default mode, to issue a warning to
> developers if they enable the non-standard mode, and to include a note in that
> warning that the Microsoft extensions they are enabling "may be disallowed by
> court order" in the future."
>
> News.com, January 22, 1999,
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-220539.html?tag=bplst
>
> Specifically, the court required programming tools to be set by default to
> disable Microsoft extensions to Java.
>
> [4] US Patent Office, http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm. Search for
> 6330670. See also 6327652.
>
> [5] From Microsoft Developer Network website, 2/26/2003:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/wmrm/htm/understandingthesecureaudiopathmodel.asp
>
> "In the Secure Audio Path model, applications cannot be used to modify packaged
> music in any way. For example, when an application is used to intercept a music
> signal, the signal sounds like random noise. As a result, applications used to
> modify signals (such as an equalizer) cannot change the sound of the music."
>
> [6] http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html.
>
> [7] Infoworld Jan 10, 2001
>
> http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/01/011001opfoster.xml
>
> [8] InfoWorld, July 12, 2002,
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/07/12/020715opestrat_1.html
>
> [9] ITworld.com 2/21/02
>
> http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1471/IDG020221mediaplayer/
>
> "Serious privacy problems in Windows Media Player for Windows XP" by Richard M.
> Smith,
>
> Details at http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm:
>
> "Each time a new DVD movie is played on a computer, the WMP software contacts a
> Microsoft Web server to get title and chapter information for the DVD. When
> this contact is made, the Microsoft Web server is given an electronic
> fingerprint which identifies the DVD movie being watched and a cookie which
> uniquely identifies a particular WMP player. With this two pieces of
> information Microsoft can track what DVD movies are being watched on a
> particular computer."
>
> See also "Microsoft WinXP Update spies on other PC software", The Inquirer,
> 2/25/2003, http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7980.
>
> [10] For example, there is no real-time patch for Windows for experimentalists
> and musicians who need
>
> sub-millisecond latency. In contrast, there are such patches for Linux: see
> http://www.ittc.ku.edu/kurt/.
>
> [11] SQL Server benchmarks prohibited, ITWorld 4/17/2001
>
> http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/136/IWD010417opfoster/
>
>
>
>
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