{"id":457,"date":"2005-03-04T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:48:18","slug":"open-source-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/04\/open-source-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Peru?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/docs\/msFUD_to_peru.php\">this letter<\/a>, written by the general manager of &#8220;Microsoft Peru&#8221; to a legislator, regarding a bill that deals with open-source software.<\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/docs\/peru_and_ms.php\">read the legislator&#8217;s response<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The legislator rips the Microsoft guy&#8217;s letter to pieces. It&#8217;s an incredibly enjoyable read, since it points out, at almost tedious length, the falsehoods in Microsoft&#8217;s position on open-souce software, and the contradictions within its own marketing message.<\/p>\n<p>Highly amusing. (And both letters are available in the original Spanish, if you want!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this letter, written by the general manager of &#8220;Microsoft Peru&#8221; to a legislator, regarding a bill that deals with open-source software. Then, read the legislator&#8217;s response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-7n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/05\/dont-steal-the-focus\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t Steal the Focus","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Atwood made a wonderful post the other day called Please Don't Steal My Focus, and I have to say I wholeheartedly agree with him. Of course, the question that is raised is \"why are programs still doing this?\" My pick for \"worst offender\" is, ironically, Microsoft Word. When you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":868,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/01\/microsoft-comments-on-the-iphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":1},"title":"Microsoft comments on the iPhone","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A satirical translation of a comment on Microsoft's response to the iPhone.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":442,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/21\/guide-microsoft-european-draft-licence\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":2},"title":"Guide: Microsoft European draft licence","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Read through this Q&A style article (there's 3 pages of it). Good grief Microsoft sucks!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":965,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/05\/insane-password-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":3},"title":"Insane Password Policy","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most insane password policies I have ever seen comes from... Microsoft?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pictures&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pictures","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/pictures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":414,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/02\/16\/bill-gates-and-other-communists\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":4},"title":"Bill Gates and other communists","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 16, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The patent\/copyright\/intellectual property issue is a big one these days, and I agree that the laws could definitely use some revision.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/09\/18\/microsoft-admits-what-went-wrong-with-vista-and-how-they-fixed-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":5},"title":"Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first read this headline, I turned and looked to see if any flying pigs were going by my window. But no! It's real! And, surprisingly, it's honest. Executed properly, UAC could have been a savior for people wont to install every application they find. Unfortunately, the UAC prompts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}