{"id":2767,"date":"2013-08-06T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2013-08-06T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:48:56","slug":"remembering-our-ideals-staying-in-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/08\/06\/remembering-our-ideals-staying-in-control","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our ideals &#038; staying in control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/08\/06\/hactivist-richard-stallman-takes-on-proprietary-software-saas-and-open-source\/\">Hactivist Richard Stallman takes on proprietary software, SAAS and open source \u2013 Tech News and Analysis<\/a>: &#8220;<strong><em>\u2018Our ideals become forgotten<\/em><\/strong>,\u2019 he said of open source eclipsing free software, and encouraged the audience to keep talking about free software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Stallman is spot on. Read the whole article. I hope video makes its way online, because RMS is right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It further augurs well that I spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martenmickos\">M\u00c3\u00a5rten Mickos<\/a> on Twitter today (he&#8217;s a former CEO of mine and a brilliant mind) and we got chatting on control. He says, <strong><em>&#8220;Every time you choose convenience, you lose a little control.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> An interesting conversation followed naturally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Every time you choose convenience, you lose a little control.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M\u00c3\u00a5rten Mickos (@martenmickos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martenmickos\/statuses\/364739862592626690\">August 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leaves me a lot to think about as I have over time chosen convenience over control and clearly it has come by because I need to refresh on my ideals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Remembering%20our%20ideals%20%26%20staying%20in%20control&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F08%2F06%2Fremembering-our-ideals-staying-in-control&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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