{"id":46,"date":"2003-06-20T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2003-06-20T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2003-06-20T20:57:08","slug":"software-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Software professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanet.ca\/projects\/professionalism.html\">essay<\/a> by Philip Greenspun.  (Hat tip: <a href=\"www.catb.org\">Eric Raymond<\/a>, via <a href=\"www.artima.com\">Artima<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still ambivalent about open source.  Actually, I&#8217;m less offended by Open Source  (TM) than by Free Software (TM).  Seems to me the only way to make any money in a Free Software world is patronage.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it has nothing to do with being blown off by RMS at a lecture a few years ago :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting essay by Philip Greenspun. (Hat tip: Eric Raymond, via Artima.) I&#8217;m still ambivalent about open source. Actually, I&#8217;m less offended by Open Source (TM) than by Free Software (TM). Seems to me the only way to make any money in a Free Software world is patronage. Of course it has nothing to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=46\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software professionalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}