Comments on: WordPress Grows Up Before Our Eyes

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:41:11 +0000

Nice lil blog Ted, keep up the good work and you’ll get in dropped my Bookmarks Bar right next to Kottke and Xeni :)

By: XeroCool - What else can I say?

XeroCool - What else can I say? — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:18:21 +0000

Wordpress 100,000 downloads!

Podz, Wordpress Dev guy, has caught the big number 100,000 in the Wordpress Counter! Horray for 100,000 downloads! Wordpress 1.5 has been amazing. Let’s keep it up everyone! :)

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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:43:34 +0000

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By: ted

ted — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:38:47 +0000

Nice Jonas, really nice to read. WP is going from path blazing software to path blazing business model. WP has my profound respect.

By: Jonas M Luster

Jonas M Luster — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:43:14 +0000

“Avuncular” — excellent :)

As to the cost of WordPress, there will never be one. The main reason for Wordpress to develop a “commercial” arm, is to ensure this stays the way it is — free as in beer, spirit, code, and mind. At one point, we kinda discovered, that a lot of work that has been done on WordPress has never gone back into the open product. Developed by third parties, which had the errors and omissions insurance, the letterhead, and the price list, that code could have been written by us and benefitted the community as well as the client.

It helps to know, that the two organizations we modeled the company after, are the Mozilla and Apache Foundations.