Wired Cites WordPress as Acquisition Bait

WordPress, the insanely extensible and customizable open-source content management system that powers this blog, has been tagged by Wired magazine as acquisition bait in its January 2007 isssue.

The new de rigueur blog-management software, WordPress is favored by the majority of high-traffic posters. One caveat: It’s open source and unlikely to accept a corporate come-on.

Personally, I don’t think WordPress needs some big corporate owner to slow it down. It has long risen to the top of the blog software heap on its own, powered by its incredibly active developer community. With the rise of problogging, WordPress doesn’t need a centralized business model to drive its development — developers tweak it to make better blogs that can make more money, and those who package and release those tweaks gain fame and could make even more money. Mammals don’t need to be chained to dinosaurs.

(Via Dave Jackson.)

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