A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.
Paul Murphy (a pseudonym) is an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies.
From Red Hat's perspective this could be a marriage made in heaven -- offering both a defense againstthe two greatest strategic threats it faces and a graceful way for key players to foldtheir tents and steal away into the night.
He clearly tried to get it right on both counts,only to find himself betrayed by the closed and crippled nature of his communitysources. Thus he did what he's supposed to do when arguing the facts:checked his beliefs against apparently authorative third parties and cited them for usto look at - but those sites misled him.
No vote tally produced by multiple, programmable, voting machines can be proven correct without giving up ballot secrecy.