{"id":253,"date":"2004-07-24T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2004-07-24T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T06:49:52","slug":"fta-disastrous-for-australian-computer-industry-and-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/24\/fta-disastrous-for-australian-computer-industry-and-users\/","title":{"rendered":"FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Andrew Tridgell (or tridge as he is more commonly known as) has got a great paper up on his site about the AU-US FTA. It’s short, sweet and to the point.
\nFTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users<\/a><\/p>\n

In "About the Author" he does fail to simply say “tridge: genius”, but he does tend to be a bit modest :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Andrew Tridgell (or tridge as he is more commonly known as) has got a great paper up on his site about the AU-US FTA. It’s short, sweet and to the point. FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-linux-aus","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-45","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":234,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/06\/fta-testimony-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":253,"position":0},"title":"FTA testimony up","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-06-06","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.linux.org.au\/fta\/testimony\/ Rusty presented to the Senate Select committee (with slides!) and did a really good job. 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