{"id":86,"date":"2007-03-13T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-03-13T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:56:06","slug":"open-source-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/open-source-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-source Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time the French parliament opens its doors, they will be serving Linux.  According to this &#8220;Business Week article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/mar2007\/gb20070312_042781.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/mar2007\/gb20070312_042781.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily<\/a> , 1,154 computers will be switching to Ubuntu Linux from Windows XP, including all of the MPs staff and personal PCs.  France has had a long history of embracing open-source software like Open Office and Firefox, but this will be the first mass switch of operating systems.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/FirefoxEU.png!\nIn similar news, this \"Free Republic\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1798381\/posts\">http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1798381\/posts<\/a> article reports the Shadow chancellor George Osbourne's statement that Britain should support more open-source software in order to save the people 600 million pounds\/year.  That article features some other good examples of governments going open-source.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time the French parliament opens its doors, they will be serving Linux.  According to this &#8220;Business Week article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/mar2007\/gb20070312_042781.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/mar2007\/gb20070312_042781.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily<\/a> , 1,154 computers will be switching to Ubuntu Linux from Windows XP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,192],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-free-culture","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}