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7) What is your opinion of the currently proposed anti-spam bill? What changes would you or your party introduce to it if you could.
8) To Maurice Williamson and David Cunliffe: What do you think you could have done better when you were the Minister? What would you like to achieve if you are the next IT Minister? WOuld you do a better job than you did last time?
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+9) If NZ government pay for software to be written, with taxpayer fund, should that software not be released to the taxpayer as open source?
10) what's your view on peering exchanges in local centres around NZ? What's your parties view on having government departments participate in peering exchangee or require their isps to do so?
11) Where do you stand on embracing the change to using open source software and operating systems? How about getting educational and government departments and facilities to use open source software, this saving the massive cost to the taxpayer for software licences ?
12) Related to above. The government has a relationship with HP/MS in the technology icubation centre (in mobile house). There has been criticisms that the government works TOO closely with vendors in schemes like this, where there is significant resources put into bidding on contracts. Would you institute a similar think tank of local talent to do the same thing but with non proprietry development models? i.e for a government FOSS think tank?
