{"id":1218,"date":"2008-05-04T00:42:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/why-less-developed-countries-go-for-linux.html"},"modified":"2008-05-04T00:42:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:42:38","slug":"why-less-developed-countries-go-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Why Less Developed Countries go for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Linux, <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\">Ubuntu<\/a>, for work and at Fon we use Ubuntu, and I also love Mac for my personal computing.  But I strongly dislike Windows.  So for me to read that in <a href=\"http:\/\/duartes.org\/gustavo\/blog\/post\/why-brazil-loves-linux\">countries like Brazil<\/a>, Microsoft products cost double of what they cost in the US when income is around 10% just makes me wonder.  Why would anyone pay for Microsoft when Ubuntu is free and much more robust, easier to use and less likely to fail.  I don\u00b4t get it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1218\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Linux, Ubuntu, for work and at Fon we use Ubuntu, and I also love Mac for my personal computing. But I strongly dislike Windows. So for me to read that in countries like Brazil, Microsoft products cost double of what they cost in the US when income is around 10% just makes me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}