{"id":385,"date":"2003-10-29T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/politics\/apt_get_free_speech.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"apt_get_free_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/10\/29\/apt_get_free_speech","title":{"rendered":"apt-get free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/~Debian%20Troll's%20Best\">poster<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a> makes an <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=83962&#038;cid=7336553\">interesting suggestion<\/a> about how to conveniently distribute documents when you don&#8217;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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/doc\/manuals\/apt-howto\/apt-get\">apt-get<\/a>. This would be particularly useful for distribution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cultcom.com\/mirror.html\">internal memos from Diebold Voting Systems<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/importance.typepad.com\/the_importance_of\/2003\/10\/swarthmore_crac.html\">company is trying to shut down<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster on Slashdot makes an interesting suggestion about how to conveniently distribute documents when you don&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}