{"id":10995,"date":"2022-04-08T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2022-04-08T12:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:19:56","slug":"free-software-explained-in-under-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10995","title":{"rendered":"Free software explained in under 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe has long been an avid user of free and open source software. For a <em>long time<\/em>, read for over 2 decades.<\/p>\r\n<p>Indeed, GNU\/Linux (<em>often simply termed Linux. Ed.<\/em>) has been my operating system of choice for over 17 years.<\/p>\r\n<p>But what exactly do the terms <em>free software<\/em> and <em>open source<\/em> actually mean? How does software bearing these labels differ in comparison to the proprietary software used by most people and organisations? And finally, why does any of this actually matter?<\/p>\r\n<p>To answer these questions, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/\">Free Software Foundation Europe<\/a> (FSFE) has recently produced the video embedded below. It takes under 3 minutes to watch and provides succinct answers to the questions posed above.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_21929\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EMi3PCW23yQ?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"What is Free Software (Open Source)? Software Freedom explained in less than 3 minutes!\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe has long been an avid user of free and open source software. For a long time, read for over 2 decades. Indeed, GNU\/Linux (often simply termed Linux. Ed.) has been my operating system of choice for over 17 years. But what exactly do the terms free software and open source actually mean? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,30,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11003,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}