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 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 ? 
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+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?