Fri
Feb
29
2008
Did Pixelcore Studio Steal From Textpattern?
Short answer: No.
Slightly longer answer: It turned out to be a misunderstanding.
As stated many times and in various locations on my blog, this is a blog and all entries are snapshots. Everything I post it based upon information I have at the time of posting. I will make updates, but I don’t pull entries. I’m not a fan of censorship.
My original post is below.
It’s really sad when a company blatantly takes the work of an open source project and claims it as their own1. The theft committed by Pixelcore Studio against Textpattern was that of communities hard work. It’s easy to see that the key players, Jennifer Mattice and Dimitri Kokkinos realize that they’ve been found out and are quickly covering up their tracks by removing screenshots to “Pixelpattern CMS” and other parts of their site.
I’ll keep their names in the back of my mind whenever I provide help on the forum. If it’s either of them, I’ll probably just shun the thread.
Update (quoted from textpattern.com)
It turns out that we have a combination of two misunderstandings:1. money was paid for a site’s design two years ago, not a content management system or extended support
2. a misunderstanding of what the proper way to go about branding isI consider this fully resolved. If you have any questions, please contact me privately.
1 Textpattern gets ripped off? dev weblog.
