I find the subject line of this thread confusing. In what sense are we fighting wordpress.com? They're a great service, they provide a greatly needed role, and they do a good job at it.
Anyways, Arthus said very eloquently what I was going to say. Our license permits this kind of thing. Someone should do it. But it should not be something official done by the development community. On the other hand, if someone does it, I expect that they would become a major contributor, simply to keep up with customer requests. It strikes me that, while I wish Matt enormous financial success, there's a pretty clear conflict of interests between the same person running wordpress.com and wordpress.org that I'd really not like to be part of replicating here. --Rich On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:01, Arthus Erea wrote: > In my opinion, the Habari community and project should not be > working on hosted Habari. Any hosted or commercial versions of > Habari should strictly be kept seperate from Habari resources. > > That being said, I do thing someone should do this. Our liberal ASL > license allows this sort of commercial venture, and I think it would > be a very valuable service. In fact, I have occasionally thought > about doing so myself. I encourage people to think about it and > possibly start it – hopefully our biggest contributors can even make > a little profit. > > However, I just want to reiterate the efforts should be kept > separate. In a large part, I believe Habari (the Project) creating > and being involved in Habari (the Business) can contaminate and > tamper with Habari (the Community). -- We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. H.L.Mencken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
