Re: [d@DCC] Census sense

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: "General Copyright Discussions \(questions, organizing, etc\)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:31:21 -0400
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Darryl Moore wrote:
> FYI, you can force their online system to work with a Linux computer. I
> went 1/4 of the way through the process yesterday to prove it.

   I'm wanting more details.  Do you have the Sun JVM installed on your 
Linux computer?  Did the larger Java application download and run fine?

   It is not the verification of the computer that is the issue, but the 
Java program that interacts with the government.   I'd like to hear of 
someone who made it through the entire process -- specifically the Java 
application, not the JavaScript platform test -- to know if it works, 
and what the real limiting criteria is.

   Does the Operating System matter at all, or is this application on 
dependent on specific features in Sun's JVM?  Will the application run 
on other JVM's?


> Between this issue, the contentious issue of using proprietary American
> software, and the most recent one I heard about where StatsCan wants
> married gay couples NOT to identify themselves as married, I think the
> census is really being done badly. Can we call for the resignation of
> the Chief Statistician?

   When you wrote your MP about this issue, what was the reply?

BTW: I've seen copies of acknowledgements from the Prime Ministers 
Office on this issue, so things are getting counted.

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  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
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