Comments on: WordPress is Open Source

By: Rachael Butts

Rachael Butts — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:25:58 +0000

Matt-
While I do commend MT for moving towards that direction I still will never stray from my loyalty to WordPress and what it has done for designers and developers all over the world.

My flag is firmly planted!

By: Slow WordPress? | Ravi

Slow WordPress? | Ravi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:09:03 +0000

[...] 3. Deactivate and delete as many unnecessary plugins you can. Even the WordPress founder Matt uses only two plugins [...]

By: Slow WordPress ?

Slow WordPress ? — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:04:09 +0000

[...] 3. Deactivate and delete as many unnecessary plugins you can. Even the WordPress founder Matt uses only two plugins [...]

By: Patrik

Patrik — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:35:59 +0000

After working with both plattforms for various clients, I can only say that I’ve been favoring and endorsing WordPress for quite some time…

Also, most clients seem to favor the simple backend and for us developers, the spirit of the community is just great.

By: tsquez

tsquez — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:58:34 +0000

Jealousy is a nasty emotion…..VIVA LA WORDPRESS!!!!!!

By: amasra

amasra — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:19:29 +0000

Good point Jay, I don’t think very many people, particularly corporations, are making a decision about MT vs WP based on price.

By: evem

evem — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:15:07 +0000

Great works for everyone. Keep up the good work. Cheers.

By: Boycott Novell » MySQL’s Mixed-Source Dilemma

Boycott Novell » MySQL’s Mixed-Source Dilemma — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:43:42 +0000

[...] beats the purpose and cause. It makes it non-Free software. Mindsets must evolve. Consider this good post from Matt Mullenweg for inspiration. [...]

By: Open Wins : Texas Startup Blog

Open Wins : Texas Startup Blog — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:12:35 +0000

[...] the folks at Six Apart and at Automattic began a shooting war. Six Apart pioneered the blogging software business with their Movable Type and TypePad platforms [...]

By: Worspress vs MT, 6A get's very dirty! | Pinoy Teens Online

Worspress vs MT, 6A get's very dirty! | Pinoy Teens Online — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:52:59 +0000

[...] I even heard on one of MATTS post comments, that it has memory leaks? Dear oh [...]

By: Kevin Paquet

Kevin Paquet — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:54:20 +0000

I don’t know where to start with my comment.
Uhmm.. I’ve read the post on moveable type, regarding the WordPress Upgrade Guide. It’s a lame desperate post, really. And also very miss leading.
Matt, you’ve said everything very well, and I (from my personal point of view) see no match of MT against automattic. They are really really very desperate on hunting you, but nothing can take me away from WordPress!

PS: My friends and I are really looking forward to buddypress

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:49:54 +0000

That’s a project we’re actively working on.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:23:13 +0000

Matt,

Talking about scalability and open source, I was very surprised when I learned that WordPress.com uses the closed source (and very expensive) Litespeed webserver.

*Wordpress needs to support a high-performance, open source alternative to Apache*, because the performance of something like NGINX is simply incredible. Supporting a high performance webserver will give WordPress a tremendous scalability boost without having to comb through code to find smaller performance bottlenecks.

So please consider abandoning the use of Litespeed proprietary webserver in WordPress.com, and pick a high performance alternative to Apache, I’m sure whichever it is would flourish after receiving the blessing from WordPress.

By: Ade

Ade — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:56:31 +0000

Well, i use WP for years now. Even i encourage friends to migrate into WP from EE and MT. All they said : WP is easy!
MT? Confusing. EE? The free one (EE Core) just to many limitation. They said. Not Me.

By: Baris Unver

Baris Unver — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:16:35 +0000

I don’t think you should get angry so easily, MT is not your competitor. WP is worldwide, MT isn’t; it’s that simple.

By: Freddie Freeloader

Freddie Freeloader — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:17:44 +0000

Personally I’m with Matt. If Anil wants to sell MT, then he shouldn’t do so by saying bad things about a competing product. To me Anil/MT sounded desperate over WP’s share of the blogging world. WP is 100% opensource as Matt said. You can’t get any better than that. And I understand Matt’s reaction to it too. WP is his baby. You don’t just stand there while somebody throws stones at your kid.

By: dm

dm — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:11:27 +0000

Anil Dash wrote:
“Chuck, just so you know, at Six Apart, we do run Vox, which is a free blogging service that compares very favorable to the other services you’ve mentioned.”

Favourably? Try posting a comment to a Vox blog and you’ll get this message:

“You will be asked to join Vox to post this comment.”

I’m sorry, but any service that requires sign-up and registration just to leave a comment breaks all the rules of open blogging.

By: Movable Type vs WordPress ! at Dani English Blog

Movable Type vs WordPress ! at Dani English Blog — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:29:14 +0000

[...] Type, attacked the new WordPress 2.5. Matt Mullenweg, the Automattic company founder offered us a great post where he explained that WordPress is Open Source and it deserves to be installed. I use WordPress [...]

By: sevenpics

sevenpics — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:32:00 +0000

Filed under: rant hahaha

By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:10:49 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Matt, WordPress has been my Open Source development platform of choice for the past couple of years primarily because of the openness that you’ve always shown.

By: Mine del.icio.us-links den 19. marts | René Clausen Nielsen

Mine del.icio.us-links den 19. marts | René Clausen Nielsen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:02:16 +0000

[...] Photo Matt Â» WordPress is Open Source – Matt Mullenweg giver Byrne Reese og Movable Type en velfortjent overhaling [...]

By: Movable Type vs WordPress at Dani’s Corner

Movable Type vs WordPress at Dani’s Corner — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:31:10 +0000

[...] fondatorul companiei Automattic, cea care face WordPress, nu s-a lasat mai prejos si ne-a oferit un post superb prin care explica ca WordPress este Open Source si merita instalat. Eu folosesc WordPress si [...]

By: Brian Gardner

Brian Gardner — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:51:14 +0000

NIN.com is the default domain that shows up in the Alexa homepage for some reason – never was a Trent Reznor fan. My point in showing that graph, is that WP is moving up and MT/TP is moving down.

IMO, WordPress has the double whammy thing going with both .com blogs skyrocketing, and .org blogs – a lot of people who’ve had static websites built in html now requesting custom WP themes. Oh, and if you want to dip back into the 90′s, even the band Queensryche is hoping to bust out a brand new site design using one of my WP themes!

By: Premium Themes Should Advance the Wordpress Community » Darren Hoyt Dot Com

Premium Themes Should Advance the Wordpress Community » Darren Hoyt Dot Com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:47 +0000

[...] Obviously the story of GoldCorp is part of a larger message about the benefits of open-source collaboration. You won’t find many bigger open-source evangelists than the folks at Automattic, who provide excellent documentation and tend to bristle at anything suggesting they’re less than 100% open-source, GPL. [...]

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:50:34 +0000

Whoops, omitted the link I meant to post: http://www.movabletype.org/2008/02/making_your_site_bullet_proof.html