Matt is a platform vendor, the open sourceness of WordPress doesn’t change that

from blog daveverse, | ↗ original
In all the talk about Matt Mullenweg, I’ve heard the same things said about IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Aldus, Quark, Netscape, Microsoft again, Google, Sun, Oracle, I’ve even said them myself. And with Frontier, blogging, rss, opml, podcasting, I heard the same said about me. The friction between platform vendors and developers is a constant, it’s...