On the face of it, Australia says they won't extradite if the penalty could include death. However, in one particular case, the federal police co-operated with another country(Indonesia) that did have death penalty, and waited until they were under the jurisdiction of that country before busting them.
A quick search turned up a story on Duane "Dog" Chapman, a supposed bounty hunter who was wanted in Mexico. I hadn't heard of this until I looked it up so I can't guarantee any facts. He was arrested by US marshals and held pending being extradited to Mexico (someTV show's coverage). It looks like they'll extradite him unless his supporters can convince the Mexican government to drop the charges (resolution here).
I also have another one of a foreigner being sent to the US -- so it's not just Australia -- not that that's a good thing.
Some conjecture that I can't back up follows: I've read that the US rarely agrees to send their citizens overseas, rather just denying the extradition requests when they are in the courts.
Agreed there. If you can use a similar situation, the Swedish police had a go at The Pirate Bay, after great pressure from the United States -- otherwise, they probably would have left them alone. However, I doubt the Swedes would roll over and send the individuals over to the US for charging, just because the US asked. Similarly here, he may or may not have been charged under an Australian law covering the same thing as the US law, but we changed our mind because the US asked us to.
The Australian government lacks the backbone to stand up to other (bigger) countries like the US and Indonesia in any meaningful way.
The reason that not being open source is billed by the reviewer as a bad thing is because the reviewer says it is trying to compete with linux for linux's users.
It could be considered similar to packaging up a distro of linux and an incomplete version of Wine, charging the same price as Windows, and suggesting that Windows users change. Not quite the same, of course, but similar.
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On the face of it, Australia says they won't extradite if the penalty could include death. However, in one particular case, the federal police co-operated with another country(Indonesia) that did have death penalty, and waited until they were under the jurisdiction of that country before busting them.
A quick search turned up a story on Duane "Dog" Chapman, a supposed bounty hunter who was wanted in Mexico. I hadn't heard of this until I looked it up so I can't guarantee any facts. He was arrested by US marshals and held pending being extradited to Mexico (some TV show's coverage). It looks like they'll extradite him unless his supporters can convince the Mexican government to drop the charges (resolution here).
I also have another one of a foreigner being sent to the US -- so it's not just Australia -- not that that's a good thing.
Some conjecture that I can't back up follows: I've read that the US rarely agrees to send their citizens overseas, rather just denying the extradition requests when they are in the courts.
Agreed there. If you can use a similar situation, the Swedish police had a go at The Pirate Bay, after great pressure from the United States -- otherwise, they probably would have left them alone. However, I doubt the Swedes would roll over and send the individuals over to the US for charging, just because the US asked. Similarly here, he may or may not have been charged under an Australian law covering the same thing as the US law, but we changed our mind because the US asked us to.
The Australian government lacks the backbone to stand up to other (bigger) countries like the US and Indonesia in any meaningful way.
The reason that not being open source is billed by the reviewer as a bad thing is because the reviewer says it is trying to compete with linux for linux's users. It could be considered similar to packaging up a distro of linux and an incomplete version of Wine, charging the same price as Windows, and suggesting that Windows users change. Not quite the same, of course, but similar.