This post contains a Bawld Guy axiom, some tech wank, and more.<\/p>\n
For those people that do what I do (what is it that I do–if anything? \u00a0I often wonder), there was kind of a big debate this past month. \u00a0It involved WordPress–open source GPL software–Thesis, formerly proprietary software that capitulated to no avail. \u00a0Matt Mullenweg, <\/a>an unstable genius that seems hell bent on harming his community (more on that in a moment), Chris Pearson,<\/a> a narcissistic genius that seems hell bent on blowing a hole in his leg because you<\/em> can’t tell him what to do.<\/p>\n The gist: the Thesis theme (a theme that I deliver something like 60% of my sites in) was not GPL. \u00a0Despite the fact the only lawyers that claimed that it needed to be worked for a free software foundation, AutoMATTic was pursuing them to become GPL. \u00a0Ma.tt started calling Chris out on Twitter, not suing, no, just acting like a goon. \u00a0There was a delightful Mixergy where Chris Pearson and @@photomatt fought amongst themselves.<\/a><\/p>\n I love me some good wank as much as the next guy, so I had to chime in<\/a>. \u00a0 I didn’t add much new–the whole situation was utterly ugly all around and very unfortunate, but some of the WP types dropped in to comment (and I love posterous for its simplicity. \u00a0But I digress.)<\/p>\n Our dear friend WP Tutorial god Ben Cook summarizes<\/a> it better than I do for those of us \u00a0that love a nerd war.<\/p>\n The Point, If I have One: Don’t Comply With The Hive, They Never Stop.<\/strong><\/p>\n So after a lot of wrangling–and even a Mashable<\/a> write up, Copyblogger Brian Clark <\/a>(who dissolved his partnership<\/a> shortly after this incident) got Pearson to stop it already and adopt GPL<\/strong>–and probably that should have been done to begin \u00a0with for practical reasons. \u00a0Note: I hate when people try and force my hand. \u00a0Huzzah for Harmony, and Ma.tt was initially thrilled<\/a>.<\/p>\n But not so fast, last week (meant to post this a while ago, left Macbook in Seattle) \u00a0opened another salvo against a compliant opponent, and like France in WWI, Matt is \u00a0demanding reparations<\/a>. \u00a0 This Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post contains a Bawld Guy axiom, some tech wank, and more. For those people that do what I do (what is it that I do–if anything? \u00a0I often wonder), there was kind of a big debate this past month. \u00a0It involved WordPress–open source GPL software–Thesis, formerly proprietary software that capitulated to no avail. \u00a0Matt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-innovation","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11261,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11261\/what-if-twitter-and-facebook-go-away-do-you-have-an-exit-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":13012,"position":0},"title":"What if Twitter and Facebook go Away – Do you have an Exit Strategy?","author":"Scott Schang","date":"February 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Pearson is a pretty smart dood.\u00a0 He's the developer of the Thesis theme that I use on all of my blogs.\u00a0 It's a pretty cool premium theme...but I'm not here to pitch Wordpress themes. 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