{"id":577,"date":"2007-01-31T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=577"},"modified":"2007-01-31T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T10:47:26","slug":"broken-iron-is-our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Broken Iron is our friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A programmer colleague writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civil Disobediance is the only answer. On a rather predictable note the eye scanning has been dropped as all the machines run Windows and keep crashing ! Laughably the Uk has based it&#8217;s whole IT policy on MS Software so none of it is likely to ever work properly, however I am ready to resist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is very insightful. If the Linux advocates had been more successful in convincing HMG to adopt GNU \/ Linux \/ Open Source, these absurd, immoral and draconian projects would be more likely to succeed, since the infrastructure would be robust.<\/p>\n<p>A rare instance where its a good thing that Linux is not being adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A programmer colleague writes: Civil Disobediance is the only answer. On a rather predictable note the eye scanning has been dropped as all the machines run Windows and keep crashing ! Laughably the Uk has based it&#8217;s whole IT policy on MS Software so none of it is likely to ever work properly, however I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}