{"id":869,"date":"2007-06-29T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/06\/29\/monkcast-7-gpl-and-when-apis-attack\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:40:14","slug":"monkcast-7-gpl-and-when-apis-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/06\/29\/monkcast-7-gpl-and-when-apis-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"MonkCast #7: GPL and &quot;When APIs Attack!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Berlind\/?p=593\">this week&#8217;s MonkCast with ZDNet&#8217;s David Berlind<\/a>, all three of us RedMonks man the phone due to the magic of chaining together 3 way conferences. Telco magic!<\/p>\n<p>Steve leads a nice discussion of GPLv3 and then we jump into a discussion of FaceBook, LinkedIn, and how businesses are hurt or helped by APIs that effectively allow anyone to poach all their data. Or, put more friendly, &#8220;the freedom to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We touch briefly, at the end, on how the RedMonk ideas of low barriers to entry and developer-lead marketing might apply in the SaaS\/URL world, and how a partner-lead approach to selling &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; or middleware is a nice way to do business and spread risk if you can get it. Interestingly enough, Charles and I talked about the same topic in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkandretired.com\/2007\/06\/22\/drunkandretiredcom-podcast-episode-99-goat-ass-partner-biz-models-antlr-ec2-and-time-management-audio\/\">last week&#8217;s DrunkAndRetired.com podcast as well<\/a>, which parts of, I should warn, may be offensive to some.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/partners\" rel=\"tag\">partners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/gpl\" rel=\"tag\">gpl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/gplv3\" rel=\"tag\">gplv3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/saas\" rel=\"tag\">saas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/zdnet\" rel=\"tag\">zdnet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/monkcast\" rel=\"tag\">monkcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s MonkCast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}