{"id":25,"date":"2007-03-11T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-03-11T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T03:35:45","slug":"non-developers-to-open-source-acolytes-tell-me-why-i-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sunday, 11 March 2007 @ 1130<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Elisa Camahort, Pres of Events &amp; Mktg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.org\/\">BlogHer<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dawn Foster, Dir of Community &amp; Partner Programs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compiere.org\/\">Compiere<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Annalee Newitz, Freelance Writer <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Erica Rios, Internet Project Mgr, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anitaborg.org\/\">Anita Borg Institute For Women and Technology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[After leaving the previous panel, I came to this one in progress&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myths\/Issues:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Lack of support:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A major part of choosing an OS solution is the quality of the online community:  documentation and peer support.<\/li>\n<li>You can actually see a contributors code work before hiring them.<\/li>\n<li>Many times you might be able to purchase support piecemeal for OS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Code inclusion violations:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just know the license under which the code is released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lack of security:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[insert standard arguments here]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Cost of making it usable\/customer service is a hidden cost:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This sticks. Free software is free as in freedom and not free beer to paraphrase Richard Stallman.<\/li>\n<li>There need to be financial resources dedicated to OS solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>OS is anti-capitalist:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the contrary, there is a VERY healthy dose of capitalism fueling OS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OS as an ethical choice:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Microsoft is in the Dark Ages of their evil&#8230;Google is the new evil, but they use open source so maybe they are a good, new evil&#8221; &#8211; Newitz<\/p>\n<p>OS is the public library of the software realm. It is all about access to use and contribute. Particularly to groups that have systemic barriers otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 11 March 2007 @ 1130 Elisa Camahort, Pres of Events &amp; Mktg, BlogHer Dawn Foster, Dir of Community &amp; Partner Programs, Compiere Annalee Newitz, Freelance Writer Erica Rios, Internet Project Mgr, Anita Borg Institute For Women and Technology [After leaving the previous panel, I came to this one in progress&#8230;] Myths\/Issues: Lack of support: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}