Category Archives: Digital rights Law & Freedom

DRM chat at Unitec Monterrey

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Last week I was invited to talk at the Unitec University in Monterrey about DRM and copyright, of course, applied to mexican law. Which is interesting since the mexican law allows for people to have a copy of a work … Continue reading →

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OOXML: The losses

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Contrary to what Miguel de Icaza believes about the ISO approval of OOXML as an office document format standard, this is nothing but a big loss for the free software and open source communities. Yes, the whole OOXML approval process … Continue reading →

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Free format victory case

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

I’ve been fighting a battle (one of many) about the use of free format files on private/public organizations. And I think I finally won this one. The Casino Tampiqueño is a social club in my hometown Tampico. So they organize … Continue reading →

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Soluciones al bloqueo de Telmex al puerto 25

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Gabriel Saldaña

En mi pasado post, recibi muchos comentarios y comence a buscar formas de poder enviar mis correos, sin tener que aceptar esos terminos de uso que son bastante cuestionables. Entonces encontre que el puerto 587 es la alternativa mas comun … Continue reading →

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Telmex bloquea puerto 25

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Gabriel Saldaña

UPDATE: para poder enviar emails aun teniendo el puerto 25 bloqueado, presento una solucion en mi post Soluciones al bloqueo del puerto 25 Telmex ha decidido bloquear el puerto 25 en una medida, segun ellos, Anti Spam. Esto solo aplica … Continue reading →

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Microsoft patenta el mayor de los sistemas de anuncios

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Gabriel Saldaña

Microsoft esta adquiriendo la patente desde el 2006 de un sistema que analizara toda la informacion de tu disco duro: desde tus documentos, correos, musica, podcasts, preferencias de programas, y los mensajes de error que te aparecen (y hasta si … Continue reading →

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