Not long ago, I blogged about the merits of Thesis Theme for WordPress. I praised it for its configurability, ease of use, and search engine friendliness. At $164 for the Developer option (which I bought), it didn’t come cheap, and updates and additional features for it have been coming thick and fast. However, nothing could have prepared me for the shit storm that has been brewing for a while, and has finally unleashed itself on the WordPress community. As it turns out, the developer of Thesis, Chris Pearson, has been building a business on the back of a GPL licensed piece of software, but the theme he profits from (Thesis) isn’t released under the same GPL licence – something which is not made super apparent on the Diythemes website. Hey, if WordPress is GPL, why expect anything built on it to be anything different?
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