Mr Mullenweg outlines what the WP.com Marketplace concept entails:
At the end of the day, it’s just a market. I’m sure styles, pricing strategies, and more will develop over time.
Themes would be on sale to wordpress.com users, free to self-install users (care of the GPL) and would split income to both developer and Automattic alike. Although it’s hardly surprising people are a tad polarised on the topic.
Given there are a number of add-on options already on sale, themery will merely add to the existing pay-per-view line-up strengthening the .com brand, via strong value add — hardly a malicious act in of itself.
≡ This is a brief remainders entry relating to the topics of communities, gpl, links, themes, wordpress and written in response to an external article, comment or opinion — refer linked article for completeness and context.
Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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