{"id":141,"date":"2009-01-29T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/141"},"modified":"2009-01-29T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:38:40","slug":"open-source-does-not-mean-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/141","title":{"rendered":"OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT MEAN FREE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to the web site of a large ed tech conference and was very happy to see a special promotion for all the Open Source activities they are featuring at their conference.<\/p>\n<p>I was less excited to see that many of the sessions they were highlighting as a part of this were not Open Source at all, but instead were focused on Web 2.0. These included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ustream.tv%2F&amp;ei=COiBSbvJG4TSMeSQvOoD&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtfPQKm-YoZLcCf1O2e882cliHoQ&amp;sig2=a52b7GIdwrGYgrq1xyevHA\" target=\"_blank\">UStream<\/a>, <a href=\"www.voicethread.com\" target=\"_blank\">Voice Thread<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delicious<\/a>, and a variety of other Web 2.0 apps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT MEAN FREE<\/strong>. Open Source means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/114\" target=\"_blank\">FREE and OPEN<\/a>.\u00a0 The difference is immense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to the web site of a large ed tech conference and was very happy to see a special promotion for all the Open Source activities they are featuring at their conference. I was less excited to see<\/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-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}