{"id":424,"date":"2014-01-23T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=424"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:40:56","slug":"guest-articles-setting-out-the-authors-position-on-the-current-status-and-future-directions-of-kde-and-its-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/guest-articles-setting-out-the-authors-position-on-the-current-status-and-future-directions-of-kde-and-its-software.php","title":{"rendered":"Guest articles setting out the author&#8217;s position on the current status and future directions of KDE and its software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    From its beginning, KDE has been a leader in innovation in free    (libre) and open source software (FLOSS), but there is a threat    to that leadership in one of the fastest growing areas of    technology. The advantages of free and open development and use    are clear for software; now closed and proprietary strategies    have become standard in other kinds of technology. The need for    technology freedom has moved from software to other more    corporate-controllable areasnotably hardware and the Internet.  <\/p>\n<p>    As was the case when KDE started, community-developed,    freedom-oriented technology is necessary to break the    stranglehold of large companies that are more committed to    managers and investors than to users. But this wont be easy    and it cant be left to a few people. The entire KDE Community    has a stake in the outcome. For that matter, this should be a    concern to anyone who develops free and open software, anyone    who uses it, anyone who benefits from it. And that includes    just about everyone using technology today.  <\/p>\n<p>    New    hardware has been announced that addresses the need for    openness beyond software. Community help is needed to support a    generous, far-sighted open hardware project involving mostly    KDE people and certainly following KDE principles. Please    consider contributing    financially to open hardware for KDE.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dot.kde.org\/category\/dot-categories\/opinion\" title=\"Guest articles setting out the author's position on the current status and future directions of KDE and its software\">Guest articles setting out the author's position on the current status and future directions of KDE and its software<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> From its beginning, KDE has been a leader in innovation in free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS), but there is a threat to that leadership in one of the fastest growing areas of technology. The advantages of free and open development and use are clear for software; now closed and proprietary strategies have become standard in other kinds of technology. The need for technology freedom has moved from software to other more corporate-controllable areasnotably hardware and the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}