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Open Source Provides Legacy Development

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 18, 2009

A seemingly innocuous comment in the beginning of this interview with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and Wordpress, about some of the upcoming things with his business is actually a pretty crucial and important issue for the Church.

Listen closely as he discusses in the very beginning about how we need to make a greater move to Open Source so that our kid’s kids can have access to the content we produce today:

Christianity and our faith is built upon historical events that occurred 2,000 years or so ago. Without the Bible, through the Holy Spirit, which has recorded those events, we wouldn’t have much if anything.

That’s why one should seriously consider using Open Source technology for one’s ministry needs. Open Source, for a number of practical reasons, secures longevity of the platform and data.

Just imagine if the business that runs your blog (or website) suddenly tanked due to market conditions and all your data was lost. What then? Open Source isn’t subject, necessarily, to any “market conditions” or economical issues, but can continue to provide their service rain or shine.

I like where Matt’s head is at, and that’s why I use his products.

[HT: TechCrunch]

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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9 Responses to “Open Source Provides Legacy Development”

  1. Blaise Alleyne
    Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Open source software also tends to respect a user's freedom, and that freedom to use, share and modify and create is pretty important for Christianity, I believe.

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 7:04 pm

      Blaise,

      Yes! Thanks for adding that!

      How did you come to get here?

      john

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      • Blaise Alleyne
        Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 9:39 pm

        I've been subscribed for a couple months now, can't remember how I found you (probably a link to a particular post from Twitter or another blog?). :)

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        • human3rror
          Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 10:52 pm

          SWEET!

          you're awesome.

          thanks for hanging out with us!

          Reply
    • JakeSchwein
      Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 7:12 pm

      I totally agree with you!! Freedom to Create, Freedom to Share, Freedom to Modify! That could preach!!

      Reply
  2. Jim
    Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 2:22 am

    I like the idea of a legacy for our kids and youth. I want to leave a digital imprint.

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