{"id":7006,"date":"2014-03-13T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:09:45","slug":"why-we-use-free-and-open-source-software-at-yola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/why-we-use-free-and-open-source-software-at-yola\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we use free and open source software at Yola"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Yola, using and creating free and open source software<\/a>\u00a0(FOSS) has been part of our engineering DNA since we started on this crazy adventure seven years ago (to the month!).<\/p>\n

The importance (and reliance) that we place on open source software is evident in one of our technology architecture goals:<\/p>\n

Open source solutions are preferable to proprietary ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unsurprisingly, many, if not all of our engineers (note to self: conduct an open source witch-hunt later) are open source software contributors. Large and essential pieces of our technology stacks (personal and for-profit) rely on many of the major FOSS projects (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, Java, GNU\/Linux, Memcached).<\/p>\n

This is our first attempt to consciously sling some love back into the community of generous people that have made our lifestyles possible.<\/p>\n

And so that the giants our<\/em> children stand on will already have their shoulders poking into the technological stratosphere (#technologicalsingularity<\/a>).<\/p>\n