apt-get free speech
A poster on Slashdot makes an interesting suggestion about how to conveniently distribute documents when you don’t want anyone to be able to eliminate distribution by taking down a server; and you want to automate distribution of new releases of the document. apt-get. This would be particularly useful for distribution of the internal memos from Diebold Voting Systems that the company is trying to shut down:
Yes, the power of apt-get could be used to form a type of ad-hoc distributed network for the distribution of the Diebold memo, without fear of a single server being shutdown making the document disappear. What we did for the Fed was to create a set of apt.sources files which contained the addresses of a bunch of mirror servers which contained the documents of interest. When a user needed to find a document, they would simply issue an apt-get instyall Document command at their workstation, and apt-get would do the rest.