Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Broadband map released under open source policy
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>| The State Services Commission, which contracted local companies to develop
>| the map, has formally allowed release of the map?s code under an open source
>| licence. This will allow other developers to add new ideas to the map and
>| other users, such as local and perhaps overseas governments and people with
>| other mapping applications to adapt the code to their own uses.
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> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/A7C6A63DF84733F0CC25745500241494
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Data collected at the public's expense should certainly be made
available to the public, in fact, to all, in order that the public can
fully benefit from it.
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