Good news! The links in Vanilla that brought the rats out defending them have now been removed by Mark at Lussomo. I applaud this decision to break the text link contract they were in and to put my money where my mouth is I just donated a thousand dollars from my personal account to the project.
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lol rats, I love it!
A thousand dollars? Man, I wish I had that amount of money to pay the bills. It sucks being in the red. :*(
Awesome work! Thanks for the update Matt.
I’ll go ahead and remove the nofollow now 🙂
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Kudos to you, sir!
Good news, thank you too, Matt.
Good move 🙂
Fair play, Matt. I had thought you were being slightly evangelical when you mentioned this initially, but to donate to a project which potentially competes with BB Press is a nice move.
It’s also nice to see that Mark also listens to what the users are saying.
Much respect Matt … I would say your mouth and money are both in a good place
Great work. Appreciate it.
I suppose some guys should apologize this case?! Matt approved his role in Open Source development one more time! Respect for you.
Great news and I just wanna say thanks for supporting project 🙂
A great big thank you on behalf of all of Open Source.
Matt, well done.
Now if everyone else would open their wallets along with their mouths!
Great Matt. I love happy endings! Isn’t the web wonderful? Nothing but decent people all around 😉
(possible exception: He whose name shall not be mentioned but is known for promoting anyone who tosses a penny his way…)
Well done Matt!
Just wanted to say thanks for supporting the project. Its a very nice example.
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