Who cares! You did an experiment…you made a little money. Good for you. Ten years from know will anyone remember this? Doubt it. So let’s move on and stop acting like children because we weren’t clever enough to have come up with the idea because I know I am jealous as hell I did not think of it…ANd I know I can’t be the only jealous one…..

I’ve urged everyone involved that I know to donate to WordPress, so as to make it easy for Matt and the community around WordPress as much as possible. It’s well worth it.

—as Ozh said. As one can see, I think Matt is pretty damn groovy. And I want the rest of the blogofreeforallsphere to know it. As the keywords to this post show, I love (and support) Matt. He’s a helluva guy. So .

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Vigilante justice can be difficult to deal with, but your apology was tempered and well executed. It will take a few days, but all of us will move on.

My initial reaction was one of disgust, but only after taking a peek at the WordPress.org source code and seeing it for myself.

After a day thinking about it, and sleeping on it, I’m still kind of disgusted but my overall attitude has changed. Teli, a friend who commented on my blog helped me to look at this differently. The other conmmenters here are right. Everyone makes a bad judgement call every now and then, especially when money is involved. We’re all human.

I’ve contributed a little time in helping out on the WordPress support forums recently and am happy to do so again. I’ll also be contributing in other ways soon.

I’ll support the cause, but that doesn’t mean I support what I saw in the WordPress.org source code.

I’ll post a similar message on my blog later today when I’ve had a little more time to figure out what to say.

Try and enjoy what’s left of your vacation Matt. Looking forward to your official statements about all this.

The initial reaction was just shock I think. In the end, this didn’t hurt anybody but you… so the rest of us should probably just shut up about it. Maybe a chuckle would be appropriate, but not all the hating.

You made a mistake. Not the making money off WordPress, not even so much the search spam, but you seemingly tried to hide what you were doing. It was dumb. But it’s no big deal.

Correct the error, apologize for the mistake, and get back to work. If you over-respond you’re just going to have more dogs at the door.

-Ryan

Matt “scum of the earth” Mullenweg, vacationing in a not-very-wired portion of Italy, finally got wind of all the villagers with torches and pitchforks who have been searching for him.

I have close to a thousand emails and countless blog po…

WordPress rocks. Thanks to you and all the others for putting it together and sticking with it. I first started looking for blog software around the time of the MT licensing deal and the thing that struck me then is the same thing I’m seeing now. Everyone loves the software until someone tries to make a living on it then the flames start. Hmmmm, a fickle bunch we humans are.

As someone who also tries to do more than will realistically fit in the amount of time available to me, I appreciate everyone’s efforts on WP. Keep it up, and if you can figure out a way to pay the bills while working on it then GREAT! Let’s do it.

Anyway I’ve been very impressed with the simplicity of WP, the abundance of plug-ins and themes, and the helpfulness and level-headedness of the support community. Thanks again.

A committed user,

csh

Sounds like you’re gonna need a second vacation when you get back from your first one!

Um, no.

Enjoy your vacation, man. Seriously.

The problem with this story is that people yelling that this is an unbearable scandal will make more noise than bloggers still thinking that Matt is great. This can be very disappointing and demotivating in the end.
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