Okay, om met het laatste te beginnen, een vrouw reverse engineren is geen standje :-)

Toch meldt de Boer Zoekt Vrouw end user license dat ik niet mag reverse engineren.

De vraag is, mag een license vorm dit verbieden. Volgens de man die ik vertrouw Arnoud Engelfriet (btw drop the www :-) ) op iusmentis

Reverse engineering, in goed Nederlands decompilatie, is volgens artikel 6 van de Software-richtlijn een handeling die geen inbreuk op het auteursrecht oplevert.

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Artikel 9 lid 1 van diezelfde Richtlijn bepaalt dat “elk contractueel beding dat strijdig is met artikel 6″ nietig is. Oftewel, de rechthebbende kan zich op zo’n beding niet beroepen, en doet hij het toch dan hoef je alleen maar naar deze artikelen uit de richtlijn te verwijzen.

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Met name is het niet legaal om de informatie te gebruiken om een kloon van de software te maken."

Zou de KRO weten dat hun license nietig is?

Raar om te zien. In een wereld die gaat naar openheid in data, applicatie en gebruik. Waar overheden open data ontdekken en open standaarden. Daar trappen inkopers van gemeenten in enorme dikke FUD die op de stoep ligt en vegen ze hun voet met hun mond schoon. Leest u even mee:

Wij werken nog vaak met gesloten standaarden, wat vooral te maken heeft met de applicaties die we gebruiken. Het is belangrijk dat er ondersteuning kan worden geboden. Daarom kiezen wij nog weinig voor open standaarden. Ik ga voor zekerheid.”

gemeente.nu

Jawel, het is 2011. Iedereen weet wat de exit kosten van proprietary software zijn. Wat de prietpraat proprietary projecten echt zijn. Iedereen kent de Motie Vendrik van bijna 10 jaar geleden waar duidelijke uitspraken over open source in staat. Maar in het noorden (let wel, Ich bin ein Groninger) gaat het licht nog niet op bij GemCC.nl.

Verder staat het vol met inkopers logica. Inkoop afdelingen zijn zo groot geworden dat ze denken dat ze profit centra zijn geworden. Waar doelstellingen zijn om 5% van elk contract af te krijgen zodat de inkoop afdeling "geld verdiend" (gok eens wat verkopers gaan doen?).

Waar geld besparen in plaats van geld verdienen de boventoon voert. Zoals: "Er werd bijvoorbeeld vrij automatisch gekozen voor de aankoop van laptops, terwijl pc’s goedkoper zijn.". Typische inkoop logica. Niet kijkend naar het gebruik, het *ahum* "Nieuwe werken" of de mogelijkheden maar naar 300 euro inkoop verschil gedeeld door 36 maanden afschrijving; een tientje per maand...

Ik ben voor samenwerkende overheden, tegen versplintering. Ik ben voor goed omgaan met gemeenschapsgeld. Maar logica als trots zijn op het gebruik van gesloten standaarden en FUD nonsense als "ondersteuning" niet op open standaarden / software, dat stuit me tegen de borst en ik kan me niet indenken dat iemand dat mag zeggen bij mijn overheid.

Het noorderlicht dooft langzaam,
de tijd staat stil in mijn geboortestreek,
wil de laatste Groninger de nachtkaars uitkussen....

You are looking at Drupal's next release, with the internal name D7A4. It was found lost in a bar in Antwerp, Belgium. Camouflaged to look like an ordinary Drupal 6 on an USB stick. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details.

While Drupal may tinker with the final packaging and design of the award winning CMS, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation Drupal version is drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings:
What's new

• Better security
• Usability enhancements
• database abstraction layer
• Better Documentation in core
• Several Performance Improvements Implemented
• Beter themes
• Better file handeling
• Better image handling
• Custom fields

What's changed

• Color module now usable by themes other than Garland.
• Usability improvements including re-weightable roles and saner Forum module defaults.
• A variety of optimizations made to data import-related functions to make migrations faster.
• Lots of previously missing documentation for hooks has now been documented. Hooray!
• Increased test coverage, particularly core Tokens.
• Lots of smaller bug fixes, security patches, and improvements.

How it was lost

Dries Buytaert—a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering graduate of the University of Ghent and talented amateur photographer—is a Drupal Software Engineer working on the core Drupal Software, the little program that enables communities to florish. A dream job for a talented engineer like Buytaert, a PHP fan who always wanted to meet Rasmus Lerdorf.
On the night of April 27, he was enjoying the fine local ales at a pub, a nice Belgian beer garden, in Antwerp. He was happy. The place was great. The beer was excellent. "I underestimated how good Belgian beer is," he blogged on his next-generation CMS he was testing on the field, cleverly disguised. It was his last blog post update on the secret Drupal version. It was the last time he ever saw the USB stick, right before he abandoned it on bar stool, leaving to go home.

The Aftermath

Weeks later, Boerland.com got it for $5,000 in cash. At the time, we didn't know if it was the real thing or not. It didn't even get past the Druplicon installer screen. Once we saw it inside and out, however, there was no doubt about it. It was the real thing, so we started to work on documenting it before returning it to Buytaert. We had the software, but we didn't know the owner. Later, we learnt about this story, but we didn't know for sure it was Buytaert's USB stick until today, when we contacted him via his phone.

Dries Buytaert: Hello?
Bert Boerland: Is this Dries?
Dries Buytaert: Yeah.
B: Hi, this is Bert Boerland from boerland.com.
D: Hey!
B: You work at Drupal software, right?
D: Um, I mean I can't really talk too much right now.
B: I understand. We have a device, and we think that maybe you misplaced it at a bar, and we would like to give it back.
D: Yeah, I forwarded your email [asking him if it was his USB stick], someone should be contacting you.
B: OK.
D: Can I send this phone number along?
B: [Contact information]

He sounded tired and broken. But at least he's alive, and apparently may still be working with Drupal software—as he should be. After all, it's just a stupid USB stick and mistakes can happen to everyone. The only real mistake would be to fire Dries in the name of Drupal's legendary impenetrable security, breached by the power of Belgian beer and one single human error.

What does it mean for you

After consulting our lawyers, we decided to test the next version o this Drupal CMS and to offer a free download link so you can enjoy the works of this Drupal engineer as well. This so you can get familiar with the new slick industrial interface and the new API's. We higly encourage you to download the software and help test drive it.

And for those not getting satire, please read this bad checkbook journalism

Every day or so I try to browse so modules that might be of use for customers. Not that my team is afraid of building own modules. Not at all as the Hansel module for example shows. A rather cool module for developers to make better breadcrumbs that we build for the NCRV.nl and was donated by them. Not afraid to make own modules that make "awesomeness happen". But using Open Source means building on the shoulders of giants and no matter how tall you are, there is always someone taller then you. So despite being 2 meters tall, I always look for smarter people writing interesting code/functionality.

So the other day I came across the Drupal anywhere module that uses twitters anywhere service. Anyway, clicking the demo link brought me to... drup.al!

And this is what I wrote about that domain-name back in 2006:

If Drupal would have started in 2005 and Albania would have had a real NIC, we wouldnt have claimed drupal.org but drup.al.


But we arent followers, not here to be hip and we were twodotooo before Tim could spell it out. So we are Drupal.org, rocking without being Beta Two Dot Oooh!

And I still think it is true today. Even if Time gave an excellent keynote at DrupalCon SF. Drup.al is a funny domain-name. Demoing a nice module, that is all it is. And when the Albanian NIC was any more open back in 2001 when I registered drupal.org I am sure I would have looked at drup.al as well. Nice domain name, but search engines are the new DNS, Google is the new Bind. Funny name, drup.al. But most outsiders already think that the name Drupal by itself is funny enough.

Opvallend dat juist een gemeente met de naam "Oss" haar website draait op een ouderwets closed source systeem in plaats van op OSS :-)