Because competition is good for you
WordPress guy Lloyd Budd — he works for Automattic, which makes him only slightly less a WordPress guy than Matt Mullenweg himself — welcomes the arrival of an open-source rival:
Melody is a new WordPress competitor — bring it!
I spent enough time on Movable Type to know where they got the name, but I wasn’t quite sure what the motivation was. Budd isn’t worried about it, though:
What is good for blogging and open source is good for WordPress, and Melody seems very good for both:
- I’m eager to put my frustrations trying to collaborate with the often opaque Six Apart behind me, and collaborate through the Open Melody conduit.
- I can’t wait to see a leaner, more modular open source MT based product emerges that is also more feature rich — further confirmation of WordPress’s own approaches, and more good open source products are great for open source.
And I may yet try something with Melody: after all, I owe her one.
