{"id":300,"date":"2004-08-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=300"},"modified":"2007-11-02T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T05:23:07","slug":"linus-torvalds-benevolent-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/300","title":{"rendered":"Linus Torvalds&#8217; Benevolent Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/aug2004\/tc20040818_1593.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Linus Torvalds&#8217; Benevolent Dictatorship<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana\">I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It&#8217;s the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people&#8217;s results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it &#8212; but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds&#8217; Benevolent Dictatorship I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It&#8217;s the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people&#8217;s results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}