Comments on: WordPress creator reckons it’d be ‘nice’ for us to go bust

By: Noah Frecker

Noah Frecker — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:14:28 +0000

Doing some browsing and noticed your blog looks a bit messed up in my K-meleon internet browser. I think I’m the only one still using it….

By: Cruth

Cruth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:07:52 +0000

So, to cut to the chase …

Should we stop working on developing WPMU sites, and use WP instead?

Will there be a way to convert a WPMU site to:

a) a similar type site, with multiple blogs; or
b) a regular wordpress site?

thanks a zill.

cruth

By: wp + microsoft = wp hypocrisy - Page 4 - WordPress Tavern Forum

wp + microsoft = wp hypocrisy - Page 4 - WordPress Tavern Forum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:38 +0000

[...] banned. The reason the WPMU stuff was pulled was because these two requests were not addressed. http://wpmu.org/wordpress-creator-re…/#comment-4110 Those two requests say nothing about stopping the selling of plugins or whatever James is doing. [...]

By: Interesting comment from Matt on paid stuff - WordPress Tavern Forum

Interesting comment from Matt on paid stuff - WordPress Tavern Forum — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:17:36 +0000

[...] the community suffers, as MU has. I would like for MU and BuddyPress to be fully complete. http://wpmu.org/wordpress-creator-re…/#comment-3922 I think this is the most straightforward explanation of his position on paid stuff. Fits those [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:31:55 +0000

I would love, love, love for you guys to have distinctive branding and naming that wasn’t so derivative of WordPress and didn’t confuse consumers. I’ve met a number of people who have told me they’ve even bought things from you guys because they thought it was us or an official thing.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:39:22 +0000

Interesting that I didn’t even know their url was mu.WordPress.org. Like I said when I first found wpmu.org I thought it WAS mu.WordPress.org. But yeah, maybe they should establish some branding by getting their own theme and domain name!

By: Jake Spurlock

Jake Spurlock — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:02:55 +0000

@JohnH Wouldn’t it make more sense for the mu.WordPress.org people to establish some branding/SEO then to tell someone else not to?

By: JohnH

JohnH — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:05 +0000

Just an FYI that I think supports Matt’s argument. I came to MU with a need looking for a solution-wanting to run a half dozen blogs from the same UI. Because WPMUDEV is so prevalent in the search engines etc. I kept running into WPMUDEV thinking it WAS WPMU. So I’d hunt around looking for the information I needed, but keep bumping my head up against all this stuff you have to pay for. It didn’t FEEL like WP! So I went away, confused. I think you guys would have a much BETTER business model by branding yourself AWAY from WP.

By: Sleepydog

Sleepydog — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:57:02 +0000

Could someone explain how MultiDB and HyperDB are different?

Obviously I assume they’re coded differently and MultiDB appeared first, but could you explain how it “does a different thing?”

Trying to decide between the two for a new wpmu installation.

Thanks.

By: Victor Teixeira

Victor Teixeira — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:05:56 +0000

I really think that all this discussion about making money with something that’s free will go nowhere.

Linux is free software and a lot of people and some big companies are making real money out of it.
Also, Redhat enterprise is not a free operating system but you have the free alternatives like CentOS and Fedora because someone just forked the code.

This is Open source.
This is why it was “invented”, for people to do whatever they want with the software: use it for personal projects, use for commercial projects, build something on top of it, fork it and make it your own, rebrand it, and even sell it.

You just have to release the code, for free or not!

This is Freedom, this is what Open Source is!

So, I see no problems here and no fundamentals for all this discussion!