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Free software can do many jobs
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| As times get tough and people look for ways to save money, computer
| consultant Michael Camodeca reminds bargain hunters, students heading off to
| college and small business owners that there are legal alternatives to paying
| for software.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=29138
Open source drives Wordpress to 6.5 billion page views
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| Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg recently delivered a "state of the nation"
| address at WordCamp, Wordpress' user and developer conference. It turns out
| that open source can be very good for business. Very, very good.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10018741-16.html
Not bad for a project that was started by kids.
Recent:
WordPress is Open Source
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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:
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| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
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| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
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| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
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| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
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| bbPress is 100% GPL.
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| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.
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| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
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