{"id":58,"date":"2008-11-05T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2017-07-20T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:30:19","slug":"free-software-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/free-software-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Software Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While thinking about the discussion that my recent series of posts about the career benefits of contributing to the open source community, I started wondering about whether this could actually have some effect on how software gets designed.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard of \u201cNot Invented Here Syndrome,\u201d where developers decide to reimplement something, even when the technically better way to go would be to reuse some existing code.<\/p>\n<p>I think there is also a small but growing tendency towards a \u201cFree Software Syndrome,\u201d where developers push management to release something as open source, not necessarily to get the benefits of community testing and review, more developers, or anything like that, but simply so that the developers can be open source developers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 0 8px 8px; float: right;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While thinking about the discussion that my recent series of posts about the career benefits of contributing to the open source community, I started wondering about whether this could actually have some effect on how software gets designed.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard of \u201cNot Invented Here Syndrome,\u201d where developers decide to reimplement something, even when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}