Comments on: Not Lonely at All

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:29:19 +0000

If that is how big is your company, surely it could afford to pay whatever program or software it needs…so there is no point in using GPL.

But for us small timers, GPL is a kind of a great blessing from heaven!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:25:52 +0000

You are right. Why can we not celebrate a less greedy world with WordPress as one of the prime example?

Why would anybody attack a system where giving is the main thread?

We hope that even in the online world, we should stop our greed nature and appreciate giving to other.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:22:09 +0000

In my very short blogging experience, I could not think a world without WordPress. For a non-techie like me, WordPress as a blogging platform presents the best option available there is.

Just like the rest of the millions of bloggers worldwide using WordPress, I am forever grateful that WordPress is available for free.

Please continue the excellent job.

By: Chris Duffel

Chris Duffel — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:27:27 +0000

Matt – on a much lighter note than the previous stream of comments, your mustard yellow author comment highlighting seems to break after you go three layers deep in replies to replies to replies. (See the July 6, 8:15 pm comment and others following)

Also I really dig the typographic treatment of this new theme. If I may stray away from the WordPress world and into the past a bit, I give the new theme 2 eProps!

By: An Englishman

An Englishman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:52:00 +0000

Great article – but it dipped at the end – you know the part where the US ‘forked’ from England. Well it didn’t, it forked from Britain and the British Empire.

England, as well as Wales and Scotland form Great Britain. When you include Northern Ireland you are talking about the United Kingdom.

Still, at least you got the bit about GPL right

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Open Source Licenses « A Path Less Taken — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:24:16 +0000

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By: Drama Around the GPL

Drama Around the GPL — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:20:40 +0000

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By: Ahren Code » Blog Archive » GPL and putting food on the table

Ahren Code » Blog Archive » GPL and putting food on the table — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:49:20 +0000

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By: sergio

sergio — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:42:41 +0000

Excellent reply. Im tired of reading articles attacking the GPL because it doesnt give Big Co’s the right to make some free software less free.

By: Ahren Code » Blog Archive » A daring fireball of a miss: Gruber on Mullenweg

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:13:48 +0000

[...] an earlier post I gave my take on why Matt Mullenweg is spot on in his criticism of Dan Jalkut’s criticism of the GPL. Shortly after Matt’s post, John Gruber of Daring [...]

By: Top 10 Google

Top 10 Google — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:51:28 +0000

Yup. I do agree with Chris and Linus “software should be free”, but he uses and likes the GPL.

By: Not Lonely at All — Matt Mullenweg | Jealous Designs | Web Design and Development | Hosting | Graphic Design | General Nice Guys

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:28:23 +0000

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By: ravi

ravi — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:05:39 +0000

Matt, brilliant response. My own version is here: http://ahren.org/code/bit/gpl-fud-round-n1

By: Ahren Code » Blog Archive » GPL FUD round N+1

Ahren Code » Blog Archive » GPL FUD round N+1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:05:37 +0000

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By: flo

flo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:47:42 +0000

how so? The only reason for a restriction I can think of is if a business has a false sense of security as in “we can choose to hide our code, so we’re more secure”, which is total BS.

By: Marcus Sykes

Marcus Sykes — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:09:28 +0000

politically well put

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:42:25 +0000

I may agree or disagree with their specific business model but if the license is GPL, then it’s legal.

By: Marcus Sykes

Marcus Sykes — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:11:18 +0000

Very interesting article Matt. I must confess that I should give the GNU GPL a good read, but I agree that WP an many other great bits of software would have gotten nowhere without it being open.

Where would we be without open source code that’s free to use, modify and redistribute? Rubbing two sticks together to turn on our pc with windows 95 on it, that’s where.

There is one thing I wonder though… how do you feel about services like [url removed], where they charge you to keep access to their plugins and updates? I’m torn… it cuts into the spirit of OS but at the same time they provide quality plugins that to be fair require a lot of work to maintain and update.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:33:56 +0000

Thanks, that helps.

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Wordpress GPL Arguments :: CMS Design Resource — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:47:57 +0000

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By: kristarella

kristarella — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:54:05 +0000

There's a quick explanation of License compatibility in the GPL FAQ and a list of GPL compatible licenses too.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:54:49 +0000

The GPL exists solely to support the belief that software should be free.

As mentioned in the comments on Daniel Jalkut’s post, Linus Torvalds does not believe that “software should be free”, but he uses and likes the GPL.