I’m surprised… I don’t think bundling Akismet with WP goes together well with the GPL any more.
Don’t get me wrong – I pay for tons of pro plugins, and I donate regularly for usefull freeware. But there’s no way I’m going to pay a couple of 1000 bucks for Akismet each year.
(I run a popular German blog, but even though I do have more than 25k pageviews and ads, the fees are outlandish.)
Gotta say, recognizing where the shot of the comment spam came from really did get a laugh out of me. 🙂
I may be wrong, but IMHO I think the business license fee is too high, and if it was lowered you’d get more ‘small businesses’ sign-up.
A case of “less is more” 🙂
Wow, nice new features. Thanks
Will akismet.com ever be i18n?
It is promoted in WordPress and there are locale WordPress versions, but users still need to use English version.
I’m surprised… I don’t think bundling Akismet with WP goes together well with the GPL any more.
Don’t get me wrong – I pay for tons of pro plugins, and I donate regularly for usefull freeware. But there’s no way I’m going to pay a couple of 1000 bucks for Akismet each year.
(I run a popular German blog, but even though I do have more than 25k pageviews and ads, the fees are outlandish.)
The fees haven’t changed in years, maybe you’re just noticing them now?