[Dale Vile] questioned whether open source could deliver innovation in the way proprietary vendor models had. I would argue innovation is often a matter of packaging - our industry is still in the process of digesting and innovating Xerox PARC’s inventions.Wordpress is innovative because its so flexible and extensible, without having to hack through scripting code. It is a beautiful thing.
Writes James Governor in WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet? (thanks Mark Ghosh).
I would not say the most innovative1. Linux holds that spot for me, Novell and Ubuntu are taking it further. Novell in terms of the product and Ubuntu in its customer care and community.
But there is not another product I would like to be working on more than WordPress. The web is here, and it is also the the future. Countless people contribute to making WordPress an important part of it.
It is the leadership of Matt Mullenweg and community members, refined into a product by his one hand and the community’s, and the plugins, themes and voices of the web which I can’t get enough of!
- I can’t read the word innovate without thinking of Don Dodge’s excellent insights on innovation (though his confused definition) [↩]