{"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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hactivist Richard Stallman takes on proprietary software, SAAS and open source \u2013 Tech News and Analysis: &#8220;\u2018Our ideals become forgotten,\u2019 he said of open source eclipsing free software, and encouraged the audience to keep talking about free software.&#8221; Richard Stallman is spot on. Read the whole article. I hope video makes its way online, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1406],"tags":[668,283,1010],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oss","tag-marten-mickos","tag-opensource","tag-richard-stallman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-ID","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}