{"id":3376,"date":"2010-07-07T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:16:06","slug":"buying-the-failure-of-millions-for-nothing-thats-open-source-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/buying-the-failure-of-millions-for-nothing-thats-open-source-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying the failure of millions for nothing?!? That&#039;s Open Source for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weighing up the choice between a custom built system and open source? (assuming both are available).<\/p>\n<p>It makes much more business sense to go with the open source version, that way you acquire a version that has grown off the back of failure, they&#8217;ve already made all the mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Building a custom system means it&#8217;s you that make all the mistakes and inherently pay for them.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress (the engine behind this very blog) is a great example, by leveraging WordPress you tap into the collective knowledge &amp; failiings of millions of installations.<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought, open source is entirely applicable in business, especially when you realise that you&#8217;re buying the failure of millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weighing up the choice between a custom built system and open source? (assuming both are available). It makes much more business sense to go with the open source version, that way you acquire a version that has grown off the back of failure, they&#8217;ve already made all the mistakes. Building a custom system means it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[339,373,459,706,878,1388],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}