Matt Mullenweg
Last night became quite a long night for me, by accident I caught an interview with Matt Mullenweg over at WeblogToolsCollection. I intended just to listen to a few minutes, go to bed and catch the rest in the morning, but the discussion was too interesting for me to cut short. It lasted over 2 hours and was hosted by Jeff Chandler.
The discussion was mostly around the issues of the GPL license, Premium (or Proprietary themes as Matt like to call them) and the recent clean out of the WordPress.org theme library. I’m not into all that premium theme GPL stuff and what I really liked about the interview was how Matt laid everything on the table about the organisation and structure around WordPress.org. His passion for the Open Source community really shined through. WordPress is all about doing what is best for the OS community and Matt made that very clear.
Matt is not afraid of voicing his opinion and did not avoid any questions or issues. He answered everything to the best of his abilities, a real pleasure for once. His commitment to the open source community is phenomenal and something every developer out there could learn from.
Stream the 2 hour long chat with Matt, download the .mp3 or read the transcript.
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Thanks for taking the time out to listen to the entire show. Lots of great information was presented in those two hours and Matt stuck around for 2-3 hours AFTER THAT! to answer any other questions people had.
I’m really happy to see that you picked up on his passion for OpenSource and that his heart for the WordPress software is in the right place. Really, after this interview I don’t think we have anything to worry about with regards to the future of the project.
Hi Jeff, I couldn’t help it! Your discussion simply drew me in.
I loved the fact that Matt didn’t try to defend himself or talk over some of the more sensitive issues. He didn’t try to please everyone and wasn’t afraid to stand by his decisions and say: Hey, it’s our decision whether you like it or not.
Truly a great guy to have in charge of the best publishing software on earth!
Thanks for taking the time out to listen to the entire show. Lots of great information was presented in those two hours and Matt stuck around for 2-3 hours AFTER THAT! to answer any other questions people had.
I'm really happy to see that you picked up on his passion for OpenSource and that his heart for the WordPress software is in the right place. Really, after this interview I don't think we have anything to worry about with regards to the future of the project.