Heh so “crucifying” Matt — once — isn’t ok, but continuous jabs again 6A/Mena is ok? Lets see, Matt went about raising money but decided to do it in questionable ways, 6A went about raising money, and although they messed up the first time they at least it wasn’t in an unscrupulous manner. Now don’t get me wrong I think Matt’s a great guy (from the little interaction I’ve had with him) and I’d be interested in his explanation but I find your posts far more intruiging
You miss a main point, Matt was raising money to support WordPress not self enrichment, Mena was in it for the money for herself. WordPress is, and will always be Opensource.
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Pero más allá de este debate, a mí, como usuario de WordPress, esta relación con empresas spammers me provoca una gran inquietud: ¿Hasta qué punto puedo fiarme de un CMS que flirtea abiertamente con los mismos que atiborran mis bitácoras de mensajes in…
“Matt was raising money to support WordPress not self enrichment”
How do you know this? Matt has never said where any of the money has gone nor how much has ever been raised. There’s no transparency there.
“Mena was in it for the money for herself.”
Errrm, Mena? Don’t you mean Six Apart (which includes a LOT of people other than Mena, although you rarely seem to acknowledge that). This would be more aptly put by saying that “a corporation desired to make money from its product”. God forbid!
Open source really has nothing to do with this and I doubt that you really have so much against the tenets of basic capitalism.
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Heh so “crucifying” Matt — once — isn’t ok, but continuous jabs again 6A/Mena is ok? Lets see, Matt went about raising money but decided to do it in questionable ways, 6A went about raising money, and although they messed up the first time they at least it wasn’t in an unscrupulous manner. Now don’t get me wrong I think Matt’s a great guy (from the little interaction I’ve had with him) and I’d be interested in his explanation but I find your posts far more intruiging
Comment by Arvind — March 31, 2005 @ 3:51 pm
You miss a main point, Matt was raising money to support WordPress not self enrichment, Mena was in it for the money for herself. WordPress is, and will always be Opensource.
Comment by Duncan — March 31, 2005 @ 3:59 pm
WordPress flirtea con el spam
Pero más allá de este debate, a mí, como usuario de WordPress, esta relación con empresas spammers me provoca una gran inquietud: ¿Hasta qué punto puedo fiarme de un CMS que flirtea abiertamente con los mismos que atiborran mis bitácoras de mensajes in…
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“Matt was raising money to support WordPress not self enrichment”
How do you know this? Matt has never said where any of the money has gone nor how much has ever been raised. There’s no transparency there.
“Mena was in it for the money for herself.”
Errrm, Mena? Don’t you mean Six Apart (which includes a LOT of people other than Mena, although you rarely seem to acknowledge that). This would be more aptly put by saying that “a corporation desired to make money from its product”. God forbid!
Open source really has nothing to do with this and I doubt that you really have so much against the tenets of basic capitalism.
Comment by Dylan — March 31, 2005 @ 11:12 pm
WordPress Spam–Blog Herald Response
Duncan Riley (someone I’ve come into interaction with a few times over the past few months, someone who I’ve also come to respect) has decided to pull the post on WordPress spamming the search engines, and defend Matt’s (the creator of WordPress) re…
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Ow!
Totally agree with Duncan! Matt is frontman in promoting opensource.
Btw nasty to drop this while Matt is on holiday in Europe…
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