Anil, Joi and Dvorak

Authored by Michael Pate on July 22nd, 2004 at 7:05 AM

John Dvorak is writing an ongoing review of WordPress. Anil Dash disagreed with some of his assessments in an e-mail to Joichi Ito. Joi forwarded the e-mail to John who then published that letter on his blog. Joi says the letter was meant to be private. Anil concurs.

Leaving aside the fact that if the e-mail were private, why did Joi send it to a member of the media without firmly stating that, I read it and thought it was a rehash of things that Anil had already written.

First, Movable Type has a lot fewer commercial restrictions now. You can do whatever you want with AdSense ads, Amazon Affiliates, CafePress merch, or anything else you want. It wasn’t fun trying to explain to a lawyer that people can download our app for free and use it to make money on AdSense ads, but it happened. (I know ‘cause I did it.)

I looked around with Google and quickly found a match.

The personal/noncommercial license specifically allows incidental revenue like blog ads or tip jars or affiliate revenue, just to accommodate the way personal bloggers use the app. That was fun trying to explain to a lawyer. - Anil

Of course, Anil had no way of knowing if Joi had seen the comment or maybe he just forgot about it. Either way, I certainly didn’t learn anything from the e-mail that I did not already know.

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