Comments on: Automattic Making Money From Other Projects

By: be-mine

be-mine — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:56:16 +0000

Interesting article. I need to read it again in order to digest all the information correctly!

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AntiSpam: TypePad and the Trio « Changing Way — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:19:54 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:45 +0000

Mike,
Thanks for your comments. You’re welcome for the link to Mollom – Dries (of Drupal) and Matt seem to be up to rather similar things!

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:35:37 +0000

I’ve always wondered about the “closed source”ness of Akismet. Other projects like Spam Assassin are open source with their software as well as their filters and they still stop spam. Matt’s arguments that releasing the Akismet server code as open source would mean spammers would be able to defeat their filters just doesn’t hold water to me.

Thanks though for the link to Mollom. That’s a new one to me.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:05:28 +0000

I removed the following statement from the post. "The latter is from Acquia, which is, like Automattic, mainly an open-source software firm." I did so after getting email from Dries pointing out that Mollom is not an Acquia product. It is a separate organization. Dries is a founder of both Acquia and Mollom.