{"id":41,"date":"2004-08-13T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-06-06T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:09:59","slug":"linux-in-europe-vs-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/linux-in-europe-vs-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux in Europe vs Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading the news you can see that more and more European Governments\/municipalities are planning to switch from Windows to Linux. As a recent example you can take Vienna and Munich (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1635246,00.asp\">http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1635246,00.asp<\/a>)<br \/>\nIn contrast to what&#8217;s happening in Europe and ignoring all the efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellak.gr\/\">local community<\/a>( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-source.gr\/\">http:\/\/www.open-source.gr\/<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoppel.org\/\">http:\/\/www.knoppel.org\/<\/a>) trying to convince the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primeminister.gr\/gr\/lang\/en\/primeminister.asp\">Greek government<\/a> even for some &#8220;tests&#8221;, the greek Government signed last year a major contract with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft<\/a> for supporting it&#8217;s ministries with &#8220;windows servers&#8221; (tell me if it&#8217;s even rational to talk about windows &#8220;servers&#8221;..). What the prestigious greek government would earn from that ? hmmm, probably some highly rated officers\/ministers got a great ammount of money in exchange for the &#8220;deal&#8221; they made&#8230;and secondly &#8230;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ypan.gr\/index_uk_c_cms.htm\">Greek Government<\/a> (Ministry of Development) was given the right to see parts of the code of windows xp\/2003. And here comes the big question&#8230;WHO will see that code? what will a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yme.gov.gr\/mot\/greek\/index_html\">minister<\/a> (this link is the Ministry of Transportations and Communications.It doesn&#8217;t even have an english translation for foreign visitors and these people decide the technological future of us&#8230;damn) do with that code&#8230;what will he understand&#8230;and how much more secure does that make him feel ? It&#8217;s rhetorical&#8230;we all know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>There are times I feel pity for myself for being a greek at these &#8220;modern&#8221; times. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressi.com\/int\/release\/77719.html\">link<\/a> with the original announcement of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>*Edit: California Government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.report.cpr.ca.gov\/cprrpt\/issrec\/stops\/it\/so10.htm\">&#8220;Explore Open Source Alternatives&#8221;<\/a>, omg&#8230;Arnie can think more than our politics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading the news you can see that more and more European Governments\/municipalities are planning to switch from Windows to Linux. As a recent example you can take Vienna and Munich (http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1635246,00.asp) In contrast to what&#8217;s happening in Europe and ignoring all the efforts of the local community( http:\/\/www.open-source.gr\/, http:\/\/www.knoppel.org\/) trying to convince the Greek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-greek","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4983,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}