{"id":70,"date":"2003-05-07T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/07\/cynical-prediction\/"},"modified":"2003-05-07T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2003-05-07T17:23:57","slug":"cynical-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/07\/cynical-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynical Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a30'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon has a brief article about a proposed bill (<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/01\/04\/28\/010216.shtml\">translation<\/a>, and lots of flaming, on slashdot) which would require the government of Argentina to use free software at the provincial and national level.  I&#8217;d link to the salon article but it&#8217;s &#8220;premium content&#8221;.  It is an OK article, not great, but it concerns an issue which I&#8217;ve been following with some interest for a couple years.  And now I want to make a public prediction: Microsoft is finna donate a whole buttload of their software, and probably some machines as well, to Argentina sometime soon.  Most likely to their schools.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1001-268925.html\">&#8220;Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re young!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really want to get into advocacy about the issue right now &#8211;  other people have already done a good job with it, and really my comparative advantage lies in sciolistic divagations about etymology.  But, Steve Martin&#8217;s brother&#8217;s advice in &#8220;The Jerk&#8221; seems to apply here &#8211; my best attempt at Argentinification would be &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon has a brief article about a proposed bill (translation, and lots of flaming, on slashdot) which would require the government of Argentina to use free software at the provincial and national level. I&#8217;d link to the salon article but it&#8217;s &#8220;premium content&#8221;. It is an OK article, not great, but it concerns an issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}