{"id":822,"date":"2005-10-07T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2005-10-07T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T11:34:06","slug":"so-this-is-a-commitment-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/07\/so-this-is-a-commitment-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is a commitment to freedom ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tectonic has a story running about Steve Balmer meeting with the Deputy President<\/a>. This is a very disconcerting thing, and unsurprizingly the editor Alistair, a man I’ve known for many years, atacks it with zest. In fact in all the years I have known Alistair I have never read him being so forthright before.
\nI sent him a mail in private with praise for the piece, but considdering it’s relevance to free and open-source software as well as to related ideas like free culture, I felt it worth giving him a plug here. Artists have as much too fear from deals like this as programmers do – and we ought to be on the same side after all (and I say this as somebody who considders myself to be both of the above).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about the deputy president meeting with Steve Balmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aj-venter","category-theory","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-dg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1410,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/26\/of-course-america-is-ready-for-a-black-president-are-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":822,"position":0},"title":"Of course America is ready for a black president. 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