{"id":1117,"date":"2008-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/1055\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:00:00","slug":"1055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/1055\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Software Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2008\/10\/13\/Open-Source-Now\">Free Software Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;When business is already hurting, up-front software license fees hurt especially hard, and I just don\u2019t believe that Enterprise Software, as currently priced, has much future, in the near term anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] The drum that Jonathan has been pounding on ever since I got here about \u201cMonetization at the point of value\u201d is just getting louder and louder and it\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n<p>Technology adoption <em>has to be free<\/em>. Technology deployment <em>has to be real cheap<\/em>. When you scale a system up and you\u2019re getting business value for it, that\u2019s when you can actually write a proposal for infrastructure and support that won\u2019t get turfed by the nearest corporate-finance person.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray \u2013 Free Software Now: &#8222;When business is already hurting, up-front software license fees hurt especially hard, and I just don\u2019t believe that Enterprise Software, as currently priced, has much future, in the near term anyhow. [\u2026] The drum that Jonathan has been pounding on ever since I got here about \u201cMonetization at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}