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  1. New Zealand already uses Linux for voting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State

    New Zealand already uses Linux for voting and has done for about a decade.

  2. Re:que the unreadability jokes by iabervon · · Score: 1 · on Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

    How can you not mention a line that starts "chomp(my $HEAD..."?

  3. Well done Sam by phobonetik · · Score: 1 · on Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

    Well done Sam -- you've been working on this for quite some time. In addition, big props for Catalyst IT, Wellington, and open source!

  4. Re:que the unreadability jokes by sam_vilain · · Score: 2, Informative · on Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

    Heh, you obviously didn't find any of the actual code used for the pre-historic import, the hostile import, the Raw Perforce Importer or the scarier SQL queries used to manipulate the data. Your program is far easier to understand :-).

  5. Re:que the unreadability jokes by sam_vilain · · Score: 2, Informative · on Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

    Heh, you obviously didn't find any of the actual code used for the pre-historic import, the hostile import, the Raw Perforce Importer or the scarier SQL queries used to manipulate the data. Your program is far easier to understand :-).

  6. Spookey dookey by donnz · · Score: 1 · on Information Patents in the US and Europe

    Strangely, software development continues in the rest of the world without patent protection.

    (sorry, couldn't help the shameless plug!)

  7. Re:In a nutshell.... by donnz · · Score: 1 · on Nick Petreleley on Linux Taking Market Share From Windows

    What isn't addressed is the reason for the "defection". I for one would not be suprised that the prime motivator was Microsoft eating their lunch - not much point producing a product if M$ baked it into Windows....

    Whilst we have always had a core Linux group the reason all our developers, and even management, are now able to (and do) chose Linux is the internet. All our new client development is based on delivering user interfaces over a browser. Suddenly we don't need to worry about desk tops, client server archtecture, APIs ODBC crap crap crap.

    As I say to my clients, we are able to truely stand on giants shoulders...

  8. Re:This isn't madness by donnz · · Score: 1 · on Browser Cookie Patent

    Patents are a critical part of the foundation of successful free markets. Why would anyone want to innovate if not to profit from his innovations?

    and yet, strangely enough, software development continues in the rest of the world without patent protection.

    (sorry, couldn't help the shameless plug!)
    --

  9. This works well in my city by Karora · · Score: 1 · on Municipal Networks as Alternative to Commercial Broadband?

    Wellington, New Zealand, did this around four years ago with CityLink, and it has worked really well for the city, fostering quite a lot of internet connectivity in the days before the telcos really had their act together.

    My company have bootstrapped ourselves into the whole area of developing and serving dynamic content, and using this was the first step that we needed to take three years ago. Without it we wouldn't be where we are today.

    I'm not so sure if it is quite as needed now, although on a different scale I guess it has a lot of value. I also do some work for a small-town ISP who provide connectivity at special rates to schools and so forth, subsidised by the commercial providers.