Interview with Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is a 23 years old boy born in Houston, Texas, that works in Automattic, a company founded by him in 2005.

It doesn't seem an interesting news, but Matt Mullenweg happens to be the creator of WordPress.
I've asked Matt a short interview fot italian people and he gave me it, by return email.
Q - Why do you decided to release WordPress free?
A - I think it's inevitable that all major software development is open source. Most software suffers from obscurity, not monetization.
Q - Are you satisfied for the success of WordPress?
A - It's been good so far, but I think we're just at the beginning of how it's going to grow.
Q - What's the future of WordPress?
A - The future is in the hand of our users, who drive all of the development.
Q - Can you draw up statistics about the popularity of your CMS?

A - We have over a million blogs on WordPress.com, and estimate there are 1-2 million who self-host.
Q - What's, in your opinion, the secret of the success of WordPress?
A - There's no secret, it's just a lot of hard work and attention to detail.
Q - What are your future projects?
A - I'd like to make all aspects of managing a site and community as effortless as WordPress has made publishing.
Q - Have the blogs changed the way to communicate?
A - No.
Q - Why the name "WordPress" and who designed the logo?
A - Jason Santa Maria designed the logo. The name was from my friend Christine, I liked it because it evoked sort of an old-school publishing mentality.

Q - Which has been the bigger difficulty to make the WordPress project?
A - I would say we've learned a ton along the way both about building scalable software and managing a large community, the latter has been the hardest.
Q - I have noted that a web site made by WordPress gets a good positioning. Does Google love WordPress or is there another reason?
A - I think Google loves WordPress.

About the Author:
Interview by Daniele Imperi, writer and blogger. He writes websites' reviews. Drive traffic to your site on Sponsor your web site, your free website promotion.
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