{"id":461,"date":"2009-05-20T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-05-26T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T00:29:17","slug":"tax-dollars-supporting-microsoft-monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/tax-dollars-supporting-microsoft-monoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Dollars Supporting Microsoft Monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Breaking news &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.co.nz\/news.nsf\/news\/5FA015D542415324CC2575C100804A31?opendocument&#038;utm_source=topnews&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=topnews\">G2009: There&#8217;s no deal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Don Christie, president of the NZ Open Source society makes an insightful plea in the news release: <a href=\"http:\/\/nzoss.org.nz\/news\/2009\/press-release-nzoss-stop-g2009\">http:\/\/nzoss.org.nz\/news\/2009\/press-release-nzoss-stop-g2009<\/a>.  The complete release is well worth a read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NZOSS is calling for:<\/p>\n<p>an immediate cessation of the G2009 process<br \/>\na complete, line by line review of the money spent by government agencies on Microsoft products<br \/>\na stop to all upgrades and purchases of Microsoft products until the review has been completed<br \/>\na complete evaluation of free and other alternatives to Microsoft products, including operating systems, office products, databases and content management systems<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Breaking news &#8211; G2009: There&#8217;s no deal] Don Christie, president of the NZ Open Source society makes an insightful plea in the news release: http:\/\/nzoss.org.nz\/news\/2009\/press-release-nzoss-stop-g2009. The complete release is well worth a read. The NZOSS is calling for: an immediate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/tax-dollars-supporting-microsoft-monoculture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}