{"id":2725,"date":"2008-01-30T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-30T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T10:07:00","slug":"schools-to-use-free-software-after-microsoft-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/2725-schools-to-use-free-software-after-microsoft-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Schools to use free software after Microsoft trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian minister yesterday promised to provide the country&rsquo;s schools with free open-source software after a headmaster was sued for illegally using Microsoft Windows, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By the end of 2009 the package of free software will be installed on all school computers as an alternative to commercial operating systems,&rdquo; ITAR-TASS quoted Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The software, based on the open-source Linux standard, whose source code is available free of charge to programmers, was developed last year by a Russian company, Reiman said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a Russian headmaster was fined 200 dollars for illegally installing Microsoft Windows on his school&rsquo;s computers in the country&rsquo;s first prosecution for usage of pirated goods.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Ponosov, had faced a maximum of five years in prison and the case drew nationwide media attention, with Russian officials often stepping up to defend the headmaster.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the case at a press conference last February, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: &ldquo;Catching someone just because he bought a computer and threatening him with prison &mdash; that&rsquo;s crap.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian minister yesterday promised to provide the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schools with free open-source software after a headmaster was sued for illegally using Microsoft Windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}