{"id":26445,"date":"2016-12-05T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3964320"},"modified":"2016-12-05T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:56:39","slug":"why-b2b-startups-need-to-open-source-their-applications-cloudexpo-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-b2b-startups-need-to-open-source-their-applications-cloudexpo-cloud-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Why B2B Startups Need to Open Source Their Applications | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, Bill Gates and in fact the entire leadership team at Microsoft were vehemently against the open source community. Steve Ballmer had once called Linux \u201ca malignant cancer\u201d in reference to Linux allegedly violating nearly 235 patents that Microsoft owned. Even post-retirement, Bill Gates had once picked on open source claiming that this model creates a license that prevents anybody from improving the software. \u201cI think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them\u201d, he had said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3964320\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, Bill Gates and in fact the entire leadership team at Microsoft were vehemently against the open source community. Steve Ballmer had once called Linux &ldquo;a malignant cancer&rdquo; in reference to Linux allegedly violating nearly 235 patents that Microsoft owned. Even post-retirement, Bill Gates had once picked on open source claiming that this model creates a license that prevents anybody from improving the software. &ldquo;I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them&rdquo;, he had said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3964320\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26807,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445\/revisions\/26807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}