A recent entry over at The Blog Herald by David Peralty, seems to be polarising views somewhat:
Creating such a marketplace, to me, is basically saying that no themes can make money, unless Matt is getting a cut of the proceeds, and that doesn’t seem right.
It’s really not about the money, even if Matt sends occasional mixed signals. Nor does the latest yet-to-be-launched product out of the Automattic stables, have anything to do with theme sponsorship.
Rather it is clear that Matt is very strongly committed to product and brand control. Recent trends towards the strong commercialisation of wordpress.com and the GPL’d self-install Wordpress itself to an extent do illustrate that clearly.
≡ This is a brief remainders entry relating to the topics of gpl, opensource, software, strategy, wordpress and written in response to an external article, comment or opinion — refer linked article for completeness and context.
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