http://changingway.org/2007/08/22/open-source-grey-and-green/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Fri, 25 May 2012 15:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://changingway.org/2007/08/22/open-source-grey-and-green/#comment-1871 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:37:40 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/08/22/open-source-grey-and-green/#comment-1871 [...] Changing Way brings up an interesting point about anyone being able to improve WordPress’ spam prevention. After all, WordPress is GPL-licensed, and so anyone can take the source and improve it and re-release it. Skippy has offered a good argument for why a fork of WordPress would have difficulty materializing. But people seem convinced that anyone can submit code changes to the core software to have them included. While this may be generally possible, I think it’s more difficult for the common person than you would imagine, and I think it is an unrealistic belief for this specific feature. [...]

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