{"id":537,"date":"2007-01-18T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/537"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:20:20","slug":"all-hail-comrade-torvalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/537","title":{"rendered":"All Hail Comrade Torvalds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Slashdot&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&quot;The Hindu, a leading national newspaper, reports that the Communist government of Kerala (the state with the highest literacy rate in India) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2007\/01\/18\/stories\/2007011801800700.htm\">announced its all-out support for FOSS<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/itforum.kerala.gov.in\/discussion\/index.htm\">draft IT policy announced yesterday<\/a>. The draft also calls for preferential treatment for companies coming forward to work in the FOSS domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t it Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who said that open source software was a Communist plot&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slashdot&#8230; &quot;The Hindu, a leading national newspaper, reports that the Communist government of Kerala (the state with the highest literacy rate in India) has announced its all-out support for FOSS in the draft IT policy announced yesterday. The draft also calls for preferential treatment for companies coming forward to work in the FOSS domain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}