{"id":1608,"date":"2003-10-20T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T02:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/20\/massachusetts-goes-open-source\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-21T02:41:04","slug":"massachusetts-goes-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/20\/massachusetts-goes-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Goes Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1528'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric Kriss, administration and finance secretary for the State of Massachusetts, has directed the state&#8217;s chief technology officer to choose open-source and open-standards technologies whenever possible. Applications  from vendors such as Microsoft that do not allow access to their source code can only be bought in cases in which a cost-effective, open-source alternative is not available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/perl\/story\/22516.html\">from News Factor Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Kriss, administration and finance secretary for the State of Massachusetts, has directed the state&#8217;s chief technology officer to choose open-source and open-standards technologies whenever possible. Applications from vendors such as Microsoft that do not allow access to their source &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/20\/massachusetts-goes-open-source\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}