{"id":65,"date":"2007-09-12T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T09:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/65"},"modified":"2007-09-12T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T09:40:53","slug":"dependency-on-closed-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/65","title":{"rendered":"Dependency on closed source software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good example for why using closed source software (and thus depend on it) is a bad thing, can be seen in the newest development around X.org:<br \/>\nThere is a new version of the X server, which contains <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Application_binary_interface\">ABI<\/a> changes, and now all users of the closed source ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers can&#8217;t upgrade to the newest X.org version, because those closed source software providers didn&#8217;t provide a new version of their drivers yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;> Avoid closed source software whenever you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good example for why using closed source software (and thus depend on it) is a bad thing, can be seen in the newest development around X.org: There is a new version of the X server, which contains ABI changes, and now all users of the closed source ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers can&#8217;t upgrade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/65\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dependency on closed source software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-linux-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}