{"id":114,"date":"2008-10-01T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/114"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:41:00","slug":"free-vs-free-and-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/114","title":{"rendered":"Free vs. free AND open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often talk about the difference between free vs. free <strong>and<\/strong> open.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of great free tools out there: all the Google apps, Photoshop Express, etc., but free is not open. Increasingly as there are free <strong>and<\/strong> open alternatives (Open Office, GIMP, etc.), we all consider migrating to them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote about this that I really love from someone discussing various blogging tools:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[WordPress] also has the advantage of the school owning the data and access.<\/p>\n<p>Telling students to use Blogger is instructing them to give over their data and browsing patterns to a third party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from Steve O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often talk about the difference between free vs. free and open. There are a lot of great free tools out there: all the Google apps, Photoshop Express, etc., but free is not open. Increasingly as there are free and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-1Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}