{"id":4978,"date":"2011-10-08T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2011-10-08T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:31:22","slug":"free-beer-vs-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/free-beer-vs-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Beer vs. Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSource software is like Free Beer because it is free, but it is free in another way as well:  Free as in &#8220;Freedom.&#8221;  Some people are confused about what this means, so I would like to try a new way of explaining it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWith non-OpenSource software, you write code and use it once &#8230; in the software that is for sale.  Others can&#8217;t use that code unless they buy it, and there really is no such ting.<\/p>\n<p>With OpenSource software, others can re-use that code.  <\/p>\n<p>So, OpenSource software is like Magic Beer.  You drink the Magic Beer, and later, you can drink it again.  Non-OpenSource Software is like Regular Beer. You drink the Regular Beer, and later, you&#8217;ve got piss.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSource software is like Free Beer because it is free, but it is free in another way as well: Free as in &#8220;Freedom.&#8221; Some people are confused about what this means, so I would like to try a new way of explaining it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ii","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978"}],"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=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}