Interesting times ahead
As you probably know, Wordpress 2.5 is scheduled to be released very soon. Every new version of Wordpress comes with new features and/or security fixes. Just before the release of Wordpress 2.5, a competing blogging platform Moveable Type published a post encouraging Wordpress users to switch to their blog platform.
As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type.
The truth is, there are lots of good blogging tools out there, and they’re all good at different things. But since upgrading from older versions to WP 2.5 can mean changes to your themes, plugins (”print your plugins list”!), and site, we thought we’d take a minute to explain why it may make sense to make those changes in Movable Type instead. For those people in the blogging community who’ve never taken a look, or who haven’t seen MT in a while, you might just find some surprises.
Needless to say, Worpress has the edge over other blog engines because of its community. Moveable Type is a little late and it needs years to set its own community to go in a competition with WP. Well, lets not forget, that, WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
After reading the post, Matt Mullenweg posted an answer on his blog, titled WordPress is Open Source. Here is a quote from his post.
Okay, here’s some accounting:
WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open source.
bbPress is 100% GPL.
WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has with over 100,000 blogs.
There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well.
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