Jerm
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2 months ago
in Google Blog Platform on Technosailor
Your logic is wrong.
P1: WP is OS
P2: Business in Blogging
P3: WXR is easy
P4: Akismet is OS
P5: A large community for WP
C: port blogger to WP_MU
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P1 is true and valid.
P2 can be true but not in this context. Wordpress.com does NOT allow users to place ads on their blogs. So is the business in blogging in WP the OS platform in P1 or Wordpress.com the closed source hosted version?
P3: True, but still not a standard and little/no documentation.
P4: False, Akismet is not open source.
P5: True for WP but not WP.com has limitations and you cannot have your own plugins, themes, etc.
Now your conclusion is cool, like edublogs.com took WP_Mu and made a hosting service but would it not be easier for Google to just listen to their customers and the market and make changes to their system?!
P1: WP is OS
P2: Business in Blogging
P3: WXR is easy
P4: Akismet is OS
P5: A large community for WP
C: port blogger to WP_MU
...
P1 is true and valid.
P2 can be true but not in this context. Wordpress.com does NOT allow users to place ads on their blogs. So is the business in blogging in WP the OS platform in P1 or Wordpress.com the closed source hosted version?
P3: True, but still not a standard and little/no documentation.
P4: False, Akismet is not open source.
P5: True for WP but not WP.com has limitations and you cannot have your own plugins, themes, etc.
Now your conclusion is cool, like edublogs.com took WP_Mu and made a hosting service but would it not be easier for Google to just listen to their customers and the market and make changes to their system?!
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2 months ago
in Google Blog Platform on Technosailor
I think you are getting your products confused throughout your post. Wordpress is free and open-source, Wordpress.com is "free" closed source and cost money to do small changes. Automattic really should support Atompub to transfer data around because it is a/the standard not WXR, the undocumented wordpress unstandard. Lastly Akismet is far from open source and it cost hundreds of dollars if you site is popular. You may be thinking of Typepad Antispam from 6A which is completely free and open source.
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Aaron Brazell
No, I'm not getting my products mixed up. I'm quite familiar with WordPress.
Open source does not mean free.
Open source does not mean free.
P4: Irrelevant. Google can pay the commercial license and run with it. Also, I believe the Akismet PLUGIN is OS, while the service (obviously) is not.
C: Why not use Blogger? Cause the code's legacy code, they could port all blogger blogs in a weekend, and have a new hosted version of Blogger up in months, with every feature every Blogger user has ever wanted.
I'm not saying I buy the argument, but claiming Aaron's logic is flawed, while having flawed logic yourself is pretty ironical (and, yes, before you anally correct me using a not-real word, the use of ironical instead of ironic was irony in and of itself).