Comments on: WordPress for iPhone + Source Code Available! http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-for-iphone-source-code-available/ A fool and his blog are soon parted. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-for-iphone-source-code-available/comment-page-1/#comment-176306 Lloyd Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:55:25 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1291#comment-176306 Jeremy, you're comment reminds me of something I would have written not that many years ago. They say age mellows and that protesting is an activity for youth. I don't know if that is it, or if experience just leads you to be willing to compromise more and be more solution focused. Although, I'm best at pointing out problems and bugs, my mantra of late has been "Don't give people problems, give them solutions." You suggest that the team created WordPress for iPhone client because of Matt's desire. Although encouraging, I don't think had much involvement in the project. The result is already clear, many iPhone customers are also WordPress members, and people are really excited for our participation! Different messages work for different audiences, so do keep up the good fight! Jeremy, you’re comment reminds me of something I would have written not that many years ago. They say age mellows and that protesting is an activity for youth. I don’t know if that is it, or if experience just leads you to be willing to compromise more and be more solution focused.

Although, I’m best at pointing out problems and bugs, my mantra of late has been “Don’t give people problems, give them solutions.”

You suggest that the team created WordPress for iPhone client because of Matt’s desire. Although encouraging, I don’t think had much involvement in the project. The result is already clear, many iPhone customers are also WordPress members, and people are really excited for our participation!

Different messages work for different audiences, so do keep up the good fight!

]]> By: Alex Hart http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-for-iphone-source-code-available/comment-page-1/#comment-175527 Alex Hart Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:58:21 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1291#comment-175527 We loved the application and wrote about it on a couple of occasions, http://thenorthamericanjournal.com/?p=47 this is great , a couple of tweaks to come but for us publishing both The North American Journal and BlackBerry Edge we will use this as much as we are using our PC's. We loved the application and wrote about it on a couple of occasions, http://thenorthamericanjournal.com/?p=47 this is great , a couple of tweaks to come but for us publishing both The North American Journal and BlackBerry Edge we will use this as much as we are using our PC’s.

]]> By: Jeremy Visser http://foolswisdom.com/wordpress-for-iphone-source-code-available/comment-page-1/#comment-175235 Jeremy Visser Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:54:59 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1291#comment-175235 You'd better thank your lucky stars the <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/license.txt" rel="nofollow">license you are using</a> is the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow">GPL version 2</a>, not the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html" rel="nofollow">GPL version 3</a>. The way the iPhone locks down the software by only running signed code is not too dissimilar from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization" rel="nofollow">Tivoisation</a>. Though we can buy the hardware, and download the <a href="http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow">source code of the app that runs on it</a>, because it will only run Apple-dictated signed copies of the code produced, our <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" rel="nofollow">Four Freedoms</a> have been compromised. A simple coder like myself can download the source, make a few improvements to the software, but cannot run the software that I have made, because of these digital restrictions. I wish that Automattic stayed away from the iPhone for these reasons, instead of simply supporting whatever technology <a href="http://ma.tt/" rel="nofollow">Matt</a> thinks is the latest and greatest. Tip: He's not right all the time. You’d better thank your lucky stars the license you are using is the GPL version 2, not the GPL version 3.

The way the iPhone locks down the software by only running signed code is not too dissimilar from Tivoisation. Though we can buy the hardware, and download the source code of the app that runs on it, because it will only run Apple-dictated signed copies of the code produced, our Four Freedoms have been compromised.

A simple coder like myself can download the source, make a few improvements to the software, but cannot run the software that I have made, because of these digital restrictions.

I wish that Automattic stayed away from the iPhone for these reasons, instead of simply supporting whatever technology Matt thinks is the latest and greatest. Tip: He’s not right all the time.

]]>