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  1. Santa Claus lives in Korvatunturi - Finland on Santa Claus vs. the Marketers · · Score: 1

    http://www.santagreeting.fi/

    Santa Claus of Finland

    Santa Claus lives in Korvatunturi - "Ear Fell" - with Mrs. Santa and elves. It is his own secret home. He is wise and old. Did you know that Santa Claus speaks many languages. He wears a red coat, vest and linen shirt and warm boots.

    Korvatunturi is 483 metres high and in fact, there are two ears at the top. This way Santa Claus can hear all children around the world. Korvatunturi is located in the municipality of Savukoski, at the eastern border of the Finnish Lapland.

    Since the 1950s, Santa Claus has visited the Arctic Circle to meet children. There he established his own Santa Claus Office in 1985 where he comes every day of the year to meet children and adults and also to hear gift wishes.

    On this site you can read what Santa Claus wants to tell you about Lapland and the traditions of the Finnish Christmas. You can also find some other important things that Santa Claus wants to tell you.
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  2. In another news on Santa Claus vs. the Marketers · · Score: 3, Funny

    In another news Finland has demanded royalties, which may run into billions, because Santa comes from Finland.

  3. one basic flaw in the study on Open Source Developed by Individuals, Not Large Groups · · Score: 1

    In my view, the study is flawed in its use of the word community, and its juxtaposition to the "cave".
    The author (without explicitly saying so) seems to include only the originator/contributor/developer/coder as producer in relation to the _work produced_ i.e, the resulting software product,
    BUT seems to disclude the originator/contributor/developer/coder as a _user_ of others' products, work tools etc.
    If one also includes the _user side_ of the individual hacker, then one can see that the community is a much wider concept, since each individual coder is also using community products, eg. Linux, BSD, GCC, Emacs etc. etc.

    I would therefore suggest that the community be seen in terms of not only single, mature, completed projects but as an interaction and interdependency of many invigorating and possibly inspiring projects.

    In fact the study itself can be seen as a community work in progress since the author gets a lot of valuable (as well as useless) comments from the community, which may ultimately improve his future copyrighted work.

    - niranjan