{"id":91,"date":"2004-05-13T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/myweblog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2004-05-25T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T14:20:04","slug":"i-use-free-software-most-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/13\/i-use-free-software-most-of-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I use &#8220;free&#8221; software most of the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a fan of &#8220;almost free&#8221; software.  Most of the news focuses on the inroads made by the server software, Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Perl\/PHP\/Python. Recently I have been surprised to find out that I am using primarily &#8220;free&#8221; software throughout the day and it is client software rather than server software. Up until two years ago I would always read Anchordesk for the reviews on some of latest &#8220;free&#8221; software.  At this moment I am using <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cafelog\">WordPress<\/a> via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> browser. I use Firefox and Internet Explorer and consider both of them &#8220;almost free&#8221;. I occasionally use <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/tortoisecvs\">Tortoisecvs<\/a> to update the WordPress files and <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/jedit\">Jedit<\/a> to edit the files. WordPress on the other hand uses the opensource software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\">Mysql<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\">PHP<\/a> to do most of  the heavy lifting. <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/rssbandit\">Rssbandit<\/a>, my favorite news aggregator, also is sourceforge software. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfcreator\">Pdfcreator<\/a> to create Pdf files, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/eraser\">Eraser<\/a> to permanently erase files, <a href=\"http:\/\/wbloggar.com\">bloggar<\/a> to post to my weblogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/filezilla\">Filezilla<\/a> as my ftp client, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still use commercial software but I do not live in Microsoft Office like some people. I use Outlook daily but the other programs I use occasionally. I have Dreamweaver but I find myself using Jedit  more often for the quick edits since it does a nice job displaying PHP, CSS,  and HTML code. I use Quicken and QuickBooks daily but I am in and out pretty quickly. Norton Anti-Virus runs all the time but I do not interact with it. What I have found is that I have stretched my upgrade cycle for all of the commercial programs I do not use daily. The more features you can find and use in opensource software the less you upgrade. Commercial software providers have had this problem for a long time. I think if my usage is a good indicator of the public then it has become a major problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a fan of &#8220;almost free&#8221; software. Most of the news focuses on the inroads made by the server software, Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Perl\/PHP\/Python. Recently I have been surprised to find out that I am using primarily &#8220;free&#8221; software throughout the day and it is client software rather than server software. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/13\/i-use-free-software-most-of-the-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I use &#8220;free&#8221; software most of the time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-1t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}