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Jul 15  09
WordPress13 Comments

I’ve watched with interest as the premium WordPress designers have struggled, some graciously others less so, whilst trying desperately to apply restrictive licenses to property derived from code that is already protected by a well established general public license. I have previously argued that it was impossible to prevent the future release of a modified [...]

Is this the end of premium WordPress themes?

Jan 26  09
Blogging WordPress4 Comments

At some point in your blogging career someone will do something that will make you angry. You may be asked to explain why you think Macs are better than PCs by someone who is simply looking to start a pro Windows argument, you may find that people insist on referring to you as Miss or [...]

Anger management for bloggers

Jan 23  09
Blogging Design WordPress Wordpress Theme62 Comments

A few months ago I wrote a post entitled When Premium WordPress themes and open source ethics collide. It received a lot of interest and sparked a healthy debate that still, occasionally, rears its head. The main thrust of my argument was that it was ethically wrong to actively prevent the further development of any [...]

Reopening a Premium WordPress theme can of worms