Matt’s Perplexing Response to the WordPress Spam Issue
by Sapphire (April 2, 2005)
Some interesting comments: Photo Matt: Response to the Noise
The remaining money will be used as the Paypal donations are and securing the WordPress trademark and protecting against its misuse, which is very unfamiliar to me and a legal thing and thus Im worried about its cost.
Um…. interesting. I wonder how this will effect WordPress spam issues in the future. It could be a very good move - but we’ll have to wait and see.
He’s basically saying they don’t make a lot of money at WordPress, and they could have had ads. But he turned down ads because (1) they suck and (2) he felt the money that came in was misused, so more money coming in would be just that much more misused. So the AdSense was there to offset costs incurred for hosting and whatnot… costs he refused to offset by accepting advertisers.
I dunno. Something about it just feels off. When you’re providing people free of charge something as cool as WordPress, you don’t turn down cash advertising for something like AdSense, that may or may not provide enough to be worthwhile.
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