{"id":118,"date":"2005-03-29T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2005-03-29T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T18:45:11","slug":"windowless_classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/29\/windowless_classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"windowless classrooms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/29\/technology\/29computer.html?8hpib=&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s NY Times about how Brazil is rejecting Microsoft and striking out its own path across the so-called &#8220;digital divide.&#8221; The secret? Open source software.<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva [President] has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems, like Linux. On Mr. da Silva&#8217;s watch, Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or research institute that receives government financing to develop software to license it as open-source, meaning the underlying software code must be free to all.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice piece in today&#8217;s NY Times about how Brazil is rejecting Microsoft and striking out its own path across the so-called &#8220;digital divide.&#8221; The secret? Open source software. &#8220;Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva [President] has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}