{"id":1732,"date":"2009-01-11T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/bringing-balance-to-the-os-force\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T11:11:14","slug":"bringing-balance-to-the-os-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/bringing-balance-to-the-os-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Balance To The [OS] Force&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day so far has to be in the New York Times article on Ubuntu, from the man driving the project, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Shuttleworth\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Shuttleworth<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLook, I have a very privileged life, right?\u201d Mr. Shuttleworth said. \u201cI am a billionaire, bachelor, ex-cosmonaut. Life couldn\u2019t easily be that much better. Being a Linux geek sort of brings balance to the force.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/11\/business\/11ubuntu.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day so far has to be in the New York Times article on Ubuntu, from the man driving the project, Mark Shuttleworth, the Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life. \u201cLook, I have a very privileged life, right?\u201d Mr. Shuttleworth said. \u201cI am a billionaire, bachelor, ex-cosmonaut. Life couldn\u2019t easily be that much better. Being a Linux geek sort of brings balance to the force.\u201d Via the NY Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[666,5,52],"tags":[668,667,353,669,670,499],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-quote-for-the-day","category-web-2point0","tag-astronaut","tag-canonical","tag-linux","tag-mark-shuttleworth","tag-new-york-times","tag-ubuntu","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}