Displaying 1 To 13 Of 13 Comments ManageWP To Soon Be Available As An iOS App @Vladimir Prelovac – Thanks Vladimir, I really appreciate how good and open you are about communicating what’s going on with MWP, makes me like an awesome product even more. Thank you! » Posted By Jon Brown On April 27, 2012 @ 3:51 AM @Jon Brown - » Posted By Jon Brown On April 26, 2012 @ 2:29 PM I love MWP functionally and the minor problems I’ve had have always received a prompt and help support response… The one and only HUGE gripe I have is with the pricing model. I have 35 sites to manage, i’d like to break that down to 5 business, 25 pro, 5 standard… But I wont pay business rates on 50 sites to accommodate this nor operate 3 accounts. So instead I work around it with a 25 site pro level subscription removing sites I don’t really NEED to manage. I’m finally this month going to up it to 50 and readd the 10 sites I’ve removed to make room for others… The whole thing is a PITA. Charge me for what I actually use, get rid of the tiers, allowing different service levels inside a single account, and offer a % based discount for hitting a certain number of sites. P.S. Jeffro, the capitization of this post title really bugs me. » Posted By Jon Brown On April 26, 2012 @ 2:23 PM Phoning Home To Plugin Authors Dave’s Dashter certainly does it right, prefilling a form that clearly indicates what will be sent and sending it. Kudos for that (and the very awesome Dashter too). I do wish someone you come up with a chunk of code that ALL plugin authors not using the wp.org repo could use the check for update and auto-install. In fact I really think this should be in core, although I suspect the powers that be would strongly object to that. Having a system built into core would at least standardize the data policy surround updates and potentially around bug-reports too. Aaron does raise a good point about data sharing between wp.org and Automattic… would be interested in learning the answer to that. » Posted By Jon Brown On February 23, 2012 @ 6:13 PM WordPress Foundation To Foot The Bill For Meetup.com Organizer Dues Like @alex – while I’d love someone to pay my Meetup.com dues, I’ll be waiting to see what’s inside the gift horse. #1 issue for me is maintaing ownership of the group so that 6 month from now when the WP Foundation decides groups can’t charge for meeting attendance to cover venue or food or organizer’s costs and we want a divorce I can go back to the way it was. » Posted By Jon Brown On January 31, 2012 @ 7:07 PM WordPress Ink Does Not Equal WordPress Cult @Dre – Sweet tat dude! See you at the next cult meeting… Seriously though, I’m with Justin, not sure where “cult” came into the conversation, kinda funny really. 1st RULE: You do not talk about WordPress Cult. » Posted By Jon Brown On December 30, 2011 @ 7:32 PM SilverLight Application For Exploring WordPress Hooks This is a pretty cool looking resource. Knowing what half the hooks are has always been a challenge. » Posted By Jon Brown On August 8, 2010 @ 2:08 AM Thesis Goes Split Licensed – Hell Freezes Over This isn’t public space. There no 1st amendment here. There is no Fairness Doctrine here. We are all here voluntarily and are graciously allowed by Jeff to express our varied opinions. alongside his. Further, I think Jeff is right to voice whatever opinions he feels are in the best interest of the community and I think that is exactly what he does. The whole idea that somehow he needs to be an impartial moderator is ridiculous. Anyone that has paid attention to Jeff for any length of time know what a evangelist for WordPress, I fully expect him in that role to express himself. » Posted By Jon Brown On July 24, 2010 @ 8:09 PM @Chris Bennett – you make a point, and I I’ve rethought it some, but I was NOT trying to equate dependent with derivative. I agree they are different cases. I spoke to strongly to suggest calling a single function made always made a work derivative. Here’s the thing though, when you choose to make a function call of GPL code you agree to the terms of using that body of work, not just that function. I’m not saying you couldn’t duplicate that function into your own code and claim fair use of it, just that calling it directly from a GPL body of work means you are agreeing to the terms of that whole work. Further while I agree there is a difference between dependent and derivative, I still feel all themes are derivative, however some plug-ins could certainly claim to be dependent without being derivative however. A dependent work would be original from the start and could make a few calls to another work but not make wholesale use of the framework defined in the original GPL work. A theme is fundamentally interwoven with wordpress code throughout, witness Drew Blas’ analysis of Thesis a theme which Pearson regularly claimed was 99% his original work. Extending the discussion, a plugin that modified WP’s sidebar widgets for example I would argue is likely derivative, whereas something like pretty link or something that added 100% new functionality might only be dependent and not need to carry the GPL (even if it utilized some fundamental WP functions). » Posted By Jon Brown On July 24, 2010 @ 8:01 PM I am a Thesis developer and I am ECSTATIC that Thesis is now split-GPL licensed. @AJ who said “Although a “split license” is kind of a joke..Doesn’t really change anything” Quite the contrary it changes a lot. See the thing is if I customize Thesis as part of a project for a client I was in violation of their license. If I wrote a plug-in for thesis that called thesis functions I was in violation of their license. I subscribe to the untested legal opinion that calling functions from GPL code (WP) makes a work derivative. I know plenty of people disagree with that, however I think that for a work not to be derivative (of WP) it needs to stand on it’s own. Stand on it’s own, as in it could run from the command line or along side Drupal or along side whatever. In other words the plug-in (or theme) would get an input, do it’s thing and then return an output without calling any functions from GPL code (WP). It’s almost funny but it reminds me a lot of Apple and the iPhone. It’s not the same, just similar. No one has to develop something based on a GPL project and more than they have to develop for iOS, it’s a choice. No one who chooses to develop based on a GPL project is obligated to distribute their work. If, however, they do choose to distribute it they are legally bound by copyright of the original work to the terms of the license that derivative work be distributed with the GPL. Chris has stated many times that started by building Thesis for himself, at which point he wasn’t obligated to distribute it, however when he chose to start distributing he was obligated to do it with the GPL. » Posted By Jon Brown On July 24, 2010 @ 6:15 AM Aww… bummer… missed it…. I’ll look for the podcast. » Posted By Jon Brown On July 10, 2010 @ 2:11 PM WPWeekly Episode 100 – The Century Mark I haven’t been able to listen to the episode yet, but just got it onto my iPod and set aside an hour tomorrow for it. Without having listened though I still wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS! » Posted By Jon Brown On June 7, 2010 @ 5:48 AM WordPress Weekly And The 100th Episode Bummed I missed it live. Harder to tune in from this time zone (Hawaii for a couple months). Looking forward to the podcast. » Posted By Jon Brown On June 7, 2010 @ 5:44 AMComments Posted By Jon Brown
I should just add in case it wasn’t clear. I think the pricing at each service tier is perfect, it’s just the use of tiers 5/10/25/50/100/500, and the inability to mix and match serivce levels in a single account that I hate. Hell, i could tolerate the tiers if I could mix and match in a single account.
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