{"id":2,"date":"2005-12-04T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battlemage.dyndns.org\/?p=2"},"modified":"2006-12-16T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T04:08:37","slug":"free-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/free-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Free&#8230; sort of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Sun has announced that pretty much their entire software stack is now &#8220;free&#8221;. Really, if you want to pick up the phone and yell at somebody when things break you still have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/page\/jonathan?entry=free_like_a_puppy\">pay<\/a>, but it does allow you to dabble with software you may have ignored before due to license costs, or start using some of the more basic infrastructure bits you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuddletech.com\/blog\/pivot\/entry.php?id=457\">simply couldn&#8217;t afford before for small projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this helps SunMC adoption, as I often run into admins who would like some of its more advanced features, but don&#8217;t have the money to do so. Anything that gets it out there and more widely deployed has to be a good thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Sun has announced that pretty much their entire software stack is now &#8220;free&#8221;. Really, if you want to pick up the phone and yell at somebody when things break you still have to pay, but it does allow you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/free-sort-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free&#8230; sort of&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}