{"id":616,"date":"2004-01-12T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/01\/12\/why-open-source-software-free-software\/"},"modified":"2004-01-12T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T14:43:51","slug":"why-open-source-software-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/01\/12\/why-open-source-software-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Open Source Software \/ Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a supporter of OSS\/FS for years, and used what I could even before I finally made the switch to GNU Linux this fall as my desktop operating system.  This long article, <a title=\"Why Open Source Software \/ Free Software (OSS\/FS)? Look at the Numbers!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dwheeler.com\/oss_fs_why.html#market_share\">Why Open Source Software \/ Free Software (OSS\/FS)? Look at the Numbers!<\/a>, not only gives the standard reasons for migrating, but provides numerical support for doing so as well.<\/p>\n<p>Do I think that desktop Linux is ready for the masses?  Judging by one or two recent questions I have been asked by people (who unfortunately think of me as some sort of computer expert) I am not sure that Windows is ready for the masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a supporter of OSS\/FS for years, and used what I could even before I finally made the switch to GNU Linux this fall as my desktop operating system. This long article, Why Open Source Software \/ Free Software (OSS\/FS)? Look at the Numbers!, not only gives the standard reasons for migrating, but provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/01\/12\/why-open-source-software-free-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Open Source Software \/ Free Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnulinux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-9W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}