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Envato Reveals Microlancer, Freelance Service

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February 18, 2013

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Can you tell how excited Collis Ta’eed is to announce his new little startup project within the confines of Envato? Yeah, it’s pretty obvious. This new initiative, Microlancer, is still very much underwraps for the time being but they’ve made the big announcement so as to get feedback as well as other excited individuals to sign up for the beta. What is the service? It doesn’t take a genius to guess: Microlancer is going to be a new way for freelancers to connect with buyers who are interested in getting small-scale creative jobs done simply, transparently, safely and quickly. We […]

Obox Removed from WordPress.com Marketplace

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January 31, 2013

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In a recent post by Ian Stewart helps clarify some of the issues that were brought up about theme companies like Obox who were providing their themes in both WordPress.com and Envato-based properties. The result was that Obox has been removed from WordPress.com until further updates are made from the Envato camp:  Since it looks like this won’t be corrected right away, as of yesterday we’ve removed Obox themes from our WordPress.com Premium Theme Marketplace. So, as I’ve said this is disappointing. One day — hopefully soon if Envato can correct their licensing problem right away — we’ll have Obox back. […]

The GPL WordPress Issue Isn't New Folks

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January 29, 2013

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We’ve gotten a lot of tweets and emails via our contact form in the last week about the overarching GPL debate created recently that has clearly shown that for many this appears to be an entirely new issue which many of us know to be not true. For context and for helping out a lot of people with similar questions I just wanted to clearly state what I’ve been answering a number of people who have asked essentially: “What the heck is going on?!?” @wpdailyco Hey Guys, can you helps us newbies who use Envato to purchase themes understand what the heck is […]

Envato Licensing, the Community and the Foundation

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January 29, 2013

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On the weekend I got some time to tune into the WPCandy podcast with host Ryan Imel and guest Jake Caputo. They discussed the recent blackball post and jokingly refer to Jake, who is an Envato Elite author, as surely having access to a magic red button that he can press to “make things happen”. I wish we did have this feature! Elite authors like Jake, after all, are the lifeblood of ThemeForest. It’s been an interesting week with those posts, all the many comments, as well as lively discussion threads on ThemeForest itself. And it’s been a timely one […]

Is Obox Beating the GPL, WordPress.com System?

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January 28, 2013

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Of course there’s a lot of pressure right now on making sure that the GPL issues around Envato and WordPress are enforced, or at least that the things being said are aligned with actual action and one such confusing example is Obox and their apparent distribution of their Gigawatt Theme. As mentioned by @ChrisWallace, what exactly is the ruling here? Yo @wordpressdotcom you got some GPL problems! http://t.co/5bjTaC1N: http://t.co/2Fa06Vf1 ThemeForest: http://t.co/idIjmKCl — designer (@chriswallace) January 24, 2013 The proof of the issue, as they say, is in the pudding:

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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January 26, 2013

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Wow. Has this week been an interesting week or what? With people swirling around the GPL debate yet again there hasn’t been much else that people have been talking about – in fact, it’s generally been a fairly quiet week. Of course, we aren’t aware of everything happening in the WordPress universe (at least not yet), but here are a few things that you’ll want to check out that we weren’t able to tackle head-on in the past 168 hours. Enjoy your weekend folks!

Is Selling on Envato 'Insane' for Developers?

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January 25, 2013

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As per Alex King‘s comment when reviewing the Mac App Store policies for selling and Envato’s marketplace: The more I think about it, the more insane I think it is to choose to do business with Envato given their current terms. In order to put your products in their marketplace with a semi-reasonable revenue share you are choosing to completely subjugate your business to their whims. You can’t experiment with your product pricing, you can’t try other marketplaces, you can’t sell direct to your customers… you can’t even choose your own software license! He compares the two in light of […]

A Response: ThemeForest Authors and WordCamps

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January 23, 2013

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I was really disappointed to hear recently that one of our ThemeForest authors, Jake Caputo aka Designcrumbs, had been barred from supporting, speaking at, and volunteering at WordCamps. It’s been a couple of years since Envato itself was restricted from supporting these events. As a company I feel there are plenty of other ways we can still support the WordPress ecosystem beyond the official Camps – e.g. meetups, teaching, and so on. But in the intervening time, I was happy that our authors continued attending and speaking at WordCamps – which was great. Many, like Jake, are amongst the most […]

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