{"id":150,"date":"2006-11-17T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-11-17T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T10:56:01","slug":"bill-gates-on-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates on Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview for News.com, Bill Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Gates+on+Vista%2C+Linux+and+more+-+page+3\/2008-1012_3-6136350-3.html?tag=st.num\" target=_blank>speaks about Free Software<\/a> and Stallman.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s worth reading it, esp. that Mr. Gates does not answer to the main question &#8211; about the open source. It&#8217;s worth mentioning also that couple of years ago he and Richard Stallman had some exchange of views and ideas. Check also Stallman&#8217;s interview for CNet, headline <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists\/2010-1071_3-5576230.html\" target=_blank>Bill Gates and other communists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we are not far away from the day when Bill Gates may acknowledge that thanks to free and open source the Internet is affordable and accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview for News.com, Bill Gates speaks about Free Software and Stallman. I think it&#8217;s worth reading it, esp. that Mr. Gates does not answer to the main question &#8211; about the open source. It&#8217;s worth mentioning also that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}