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> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding
by pingswept 13y ago
> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine
Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding ecosystem may eventually be just as commercial as that of Wordpress, the main Ghost developers have the explicit goal of not getting corrupted by money.
- vdaniuk 13y agoUrgh. What is the exact meaning of that "corruption" you are speaking about?
- pingswept 13y agoTo paraphrase John O'Nolan in his original Kickstarter video for Ghost, Ghost is designed for users, not to please investors or potential acquirers. You can hear the original here: https://ghost.org/features/ https://ghost.org/features/ starting around 2:05 in the video.
- vdaniuk 13y agoThat is absolutely irrelevant to the corruption claims of OP and doesnt answer my question.
- pingswept 13y agoBut I am OP. That's what I meant when I wrote corruption-- the idea that a nonprofit will be more user-focused since they can't be acquisition-focused, since they're not an acquisition target.
- vdaniuk 13y agoWell, ok then. In general user value and investor value are orthogonal to each other. In closed-source, proprietory, vendor locked-in products there is a conflict of interests between value for investors and value for users. I just don't see this conflict in open source software, it happens, but rarely.
- nikcub 13y agoWordpress don't allow non-GPL themes and plugins in their directories, there was an entire dragged-out debate about it. That is about as far away from "corrupted by money" as it gets. Wordpress is the victim of being popular.
- pingswept 13y agoYou have a decent point here.