{"id":1588,"date":"2013-08-12T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2013-08-12T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:31:42","slug":"my-favourite-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Open Source Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-12-Aug-2013-2218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"blogsy-1376343134578.3066\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-12-Aug-2013-2218.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve used a fair bit of open source software in my time but have increasingly found myself using more and more. It seems the quality of a lot of the software is maturing and more notice is being taken of user experience.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Open source software is defined as:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software at no cost to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open-content movements. <em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not all the best things in life are free, but there are a lot of things which there doesn&#8217;t seem any point spending money on. Some software I use is proprietary (OSX, iOS, Pages, Blogsy etc) but I always believe in using the right tool for the job rather than using open source or a particular company just for the sake of it. My list of software is available <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/open-source\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and no doubt will be updated regularly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"blogsy_footer\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used a fair bit of open source software in my time but have increasingly found myself using more and more. It seems the quality of a lot of the software is maturing and more notice is being taken of user experience. Open source software is defined as: Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}