{"id":489,"date":"2004-06-28T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=489"},"modified":"2004-06-28T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T23:08:07","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/489","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a good article <a title=\"likely interesting to only a small fraction of visitors, eek!\" href=\"http:\/\/tim.oreilly.com\/opensource\/paradigmshift_0504.html\">The Open Source Paradigm Shift<\/a>, Tim O&#8217;Reily says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI have a simple test that I use in my talks to see if my audience of computer industry professionals is thinking with the old paradigm or the new. &#8220;How many of you use Linux?&#8221; I ask. Depending on the venue, 20-80% of the audience might raise its hands. &#8220;How many of you use Google?&#8221; Every hand in the room goes up. And the light begins to dawn. Every one of them uses Google&#8217;s massive complex of 100,000 Linux servers, but they were blinded to the answer by a mindset in which &#8220;the software you use&#8221; is defined as the software running on the computer in front of you. Most of the &#8220;killer apps&#8221; of the Internet, applications used by hundreds of millions of people, run on Linux or FreeBSD. But the operating system, as formerly defined, is to these applications only a component of a larger system. Their true platform is the Internet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a good article The Open Source Paradigm Shift, Tim O&#8217;Reily says: I have a simple test that I use in my talks to see if my audience of computer industry professionals is thinking with the old paradigm or the new. &#8220;How many of you use Linux?&#8221; I ask. Depending on the venue, 20-80% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}