As far as Akismet becoming part of the core, I can definitely understand your concerns with it. I personally love Akismet, so I’m not to have too much pushback from wanting it to be part of the core, but I can understand other people not wanting it to be part of the core simply because they may not want to use it.

Although, based on this video from Matt’s blog: http://ma.tt/2009/11/this-week-in-startups/ I thought that he was the founder of automattic, but I guess I could have been wrong about that.

Hmmm…I don’t know how I feel about akismet becoming a core part of wordpress. It’s fine as an add on, that way people who don’t like having to use locked down plugins can just remove it (I like akismet, but I could see others not liking it), however, putting akismet into the core would mean that it would be much more work to remove it if you felt obligated to do so.

Couple things on that:

From my understanding Mark is not an Automattic employee.

Secondly, I am under the impression that Akismet will become a core plugin and will no longer part of the default WordPress installation.

Thanks for your comments, have a great weekend.

~da

“Harvest people’s e-mail addresses or require registration to activate the plugin.

Explicitly state or imply that users of the plugin must pay you money in order to use the plugin.”

Akismet breaks both of those rules, and not only is it made by automattic, but it’s even built into wordpress.