{"id":7872,"date":"2015-02-14T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:29:09","slug":"we-love-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/we-love-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"We love Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt is Valentine’s Day, the day where you declare your (secret or not) love. And we will be honest: We love Free Software<\/em>! #ilovefs<\/a><\/p>\n

Declaration of love<\/h2>\n

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants<\/p>\n

— Sir Isaac Newton<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As any Free Software community, we build on the brilliance of countless other projects. The very language ownCloud is written in (PHP) and the stack it usually runs on (LAMP) are Free and Open and developed by people who recognise the value of open collaboration and Software Freedom. Moving beyond technology, ownCloud was born out of the KDE community<\/a>, which provided us a warm place to grow up until we could stand on our own feet.<\/p>\n

These are merely the first few projects one might think of – making a list of the many projects and individuals ownCloud is indepted to is a futile excercize. Action speaks louder than words, however, and we’d like to think of ourselves as more than mere Consumers. We are Creators, part of this wider Free Software community, participating where we can. So we draw on the awesome effort by Alessandro Cosentino for our 5th birthday<\/a>, bringing together a list of contributions by ownCloud participants to other projects.<\/p>\n

ownCloud contributions<\/h3>\n

In the coding area, Alessandro identified the following contributions:<\/p>\n