{"id":238,"date":"2003-10-30T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T23:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/30\/vietnam-making-big-gestures-towards-mo"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:58:27","slug":"vietnam-making-big-gestures-towards-moving-towards-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/10\/30\/vietnam-making-big-gestures-towards-moving-towards-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam making big gestures towards moving towards Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a173'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Seems Vietnam is trying to make heavy overtures at the policy level to bring in Open Source to the country.&nbsp;&nbsp; I welcome that gesture as right now Vietnam is a heavy Windoze shop among the people that actually have the oppurtunity to use a computer and using free or really really cheap software would make it much easier for the Vietnamese to access software without outright pirating it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I wonder if the government needs any consultants to help them in the transition.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll go<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems Vietnam is trying to make heavy overtures at the policy level to bring in Open Source to the country.&nbsp;&nbsp; I welcome that gesture as right now Vietnam is a heavy Windoze shop among the people that actually have the oppurtunity to use a computer and using free or really really cheap software would make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tiengviet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}