On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:49 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > From what I see in the premium features, these services seem to rely > on the fact that wordpress hosts the blogs (and then provides paying > services on top of this hosting). But as you say, they seem to push > people to host their blogs themselves. So I'm not sure about the > economic logic here.
I think the economic logic is: - People want good & cheap blogging software - They provide a very good one for free to download, to build a brand and the best software through a free software project - Some of the bloggers won't want to take care of the hosting, but will rather have Wordpress than another software - Their hosting plateform then becomes the best place to host it - even if only a very small fraction of the bloggers use it, they will still have a lot more customers than if they did everything closed from the start (because of brand notoriety, and software quality) Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
