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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.
"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system." — look past the un-inspiring web design and you’ll find a capable, stylish and open-source RSS reader.
"Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant’s ongoing program to partner with open-source companies." — yet another approach to try and use IP as a deal driver.
