{"id":41,"date":"2004-08-17T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T20:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=41"},"modified":"2004-08-17T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T20:31:05","slug":"infoworld-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/08\/17\/infoworld-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"InfoWorld Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just caught this <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/techwatch\/archives\/000697.html\">blog<\/a> from Tom Sullivan over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\">InfoWorld<\/a> and was pleased to see that the actual intent of what we&#8217;re trying to do was captured perfectly. As he notes, the actual release of the content for free isn&#8217;t new. <\/p>\n<p>But with this release we are indeed taking a page from the open source world, realizing that sometimes to get something, you have to give something back. In this case, we&#8217;re hoping that the potential collaboration and information interchange (we&#8217;ll have more on that shortly, I hope) that is made possible by the open release of the content is more valuable than keeping it under lock and key. <\/p>\n<p>Does that mean we&#8217;ll license all of our content under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a> license? No, not tomorrow anyway. But just as software providers such as BEA, IBM, Novell, Sun and a host of others are embracing open source selectively and judiciously for their businesses, so too do we expect to carefully consider the role that open content will play in ours. <\/p>\n<p>I see no reason to believe that the open source model is any less applicable to our business model than it is to software. It&#8217;s not one-to-one, of course, because of the inherent differences between source code and analysis, but at the end of the day they are both just information. Information that can be used and built on. <i>If<\/i> you allow it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just caught this blog from Tom Sullivan over at InfoWorld and was pleased to see that the actual intent of what we&#8217;re trying to do was captured perfectly. As he notes, the actual release of the content for free isn&#8217;t new. But with this release we are indeed taking a page from the open source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-headlines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}