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It seems that one political party in New Zealand has some bold plans for the future of New Zealand's technology sector. There's an interesting report over on Stuff which suggests that one of the political parties of New Zealand, namely the Green Party, is pushing for bold plans for New Zealand's technological future. The policy as released by MP Metiria Turei says that, among other things, it would exclude software from the patent process and investigate the possibility of a free municipally owned wireless network. The report suggests that this move follows up an earlier move to get government desktop computers moved over from Microsoft's Windows to open sourced solution Linux. From the report: Centre systems manager Jason Horncy says it is "very satisfied" with its decision in 2003 to install Linux on the 120 desktop PCs in its 25 regional offices and on most PCs in its head office.