{"id":1794,"date":"2008-03-18T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/18\/the-real-reason-we-use-linux\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T14:13:31","slug":"the-real-reason-we-use-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/the-real-reason-we-use-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL reason we use Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We tell people we use Linux because it&#8217;s secure. Or because it&#8217;s free, because it&#8217;s customizable, because it&#8217;s free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support&#8230;But all of that is just marketing bullshit. We tell that to non-Linuxers because they wouldn&#8217;t understand the real reason. And when we say those false reasons enough, we might even start to believe them ourselves.But deep underneath, the real reason remains.We use Linux because &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.anamazingmind.com\/2008\/03\/real-reason-we-use-linux.html\">An Amazing Mind: The REAL reason we use LInux&#8230;<\/a> has it exactly right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tell people we use Linux because it&#8217;s secure. Or because it&#8217;s free, because it&#8217;s customizable, because it&#8217;s free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support&#8230;But all of that is just marketing bullshit. We tell that to non-Linuxers because they wouldn&#8217;t understand the real reason. And when we say those false reasons enough, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/the-real-reason-we-use-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The REAL reason we use Linux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-sW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}