{"id":43,"date":"2007-04-14T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/bbc-radio-4-on-open-source\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T11:15:21","slug":"bbc_radio_4_on_open_source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/bbc_radio_4_on_open_source\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4 on Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjr.towers.org.uk\/\">MJ Ray<\/a> points towards a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/pip\/z9ksy\/\">BBC Radio 4 programme on Open Source<\/a> by Paul Bennun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve just listened to the programme and it contains some wonderful ideas about how software is unique in the world, being a collection of ideas rather than a collection of physical components. It&#039;s an insightful, well balanced exploration of Free and Open Source software and how it is a social rather than technological phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked a quote from Nick McGrath, Head of platform strategy for Microsoft in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We don&#039;t compete with the Open Source community, that would be like trying to compete with the weather&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MJ Ray points towards a BBC Radio 4 programme on Open Source by Paul Bennun. I&#039;ve just listened to the programme and it contains some wonderful ideas about how software is unique in the world, being a collection of ideas rather than a collection of physical components. It&#039;s an insightful, well balanced exploration of Free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/bbc_radio_4_on_open_source\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC Radio 4 on Open Source<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}