{"id":1064,"date":"2005-08-16T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T06:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-07-26T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:40:34","slug":"open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Technology Review has a story, <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/articles\/05\/08\/wo\/wo_081205hellweg.0.asp\"><em>The Tech Boom 2.0<\/em><\/a>, that covers a point of view that I couldn\u2019t agree with more.\u00a0 I often use <a title=\"Open Source at Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\">open-source software<\/a> to develop high-end, robust, and full-featured websites and web systems for clients and our own projects.\u00a0 Open-source software isn\u2019t just for geeks anymore, but a viable basis for eBusiness development, services, education, and every other industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We spent millions developing systems at MP3.com that are readily available today for free,\u201d says Kostello. Open-source software covers a wide range of products, all with one thing in common: the source code is freely available to all to use and modify.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the current hot-and-cold economy, don\u2019t look for technology company launches to slow down. In fact, because of the improvements to open-source software and the commoditization of hardware, they\u2019ll likely increase. These developments \u201clower the risk of starting a company,\u201d says Kostello. \u201cSince you don\u2019t have to put out a lot of capital to start, you\u2019re going to see a real creative wave of products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement that will likely strike fear into the Suns, Oracles, and Microsofts, Levie assesses the attitude of his fellow 20-something entrepreneurs: \u201cMy extended network is all in the younger crowd. I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s not developing on Linux.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/articles\/05\/08\/wo\/wo_081205hellweg.0.asp\">full article<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also see..<br \/>\n<a title=\"Open Source at Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\">Open Source definition<\/a> at Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/\">The Open Source Initiative<\/a> (nonprofit initiative).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/\">Sourceforge<\/a> (The world\u2019s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn\u2019t agree with more.\u00a0 I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and full-featured websites and web systems for clients and our own projects.\u00a0 Open-source software isn\u2019t just for geeks anymore, but a viable basis for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[171,99,45,14,34],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-opensource","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-web","tag-web2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}