Wordpress is open-source free stuff. Free to use, free to develop stuff to, free. There are of course stuff that cost money, like premier themes, but in general - Wordpress is free of charge.
But, I would have payed money for Akismet - if it wasn’t free. Akismet, the spam giant, is in fact the only program I would even consider paying for. Nothing else. I can develop plug-ins and themes my self, so I don’t have to pay for anything like that. But, if Akismet had cost money, I would have purchased it. No question about it. And:
It would have been a brilliant investment.
Akismet actually saves me huge amounts of money every day. If it hadn’t been for this brilliant program, I would manually have removed all the spam comments from my blogs. That would have taken me much time, time which I would like to spend on tasks that earns me money instead.
Since installing it, Akismet has removed 70,539 spam comments!!
I installed Akismet about a year ago, so that number is in fact really shocking. Thinking of it, spam is the main problem on the internet today. It should be the death-penalty for producing spam. I really hate it. If I had purchased all the Viagra I get offered in comment fields and in my mail, my dick would have been 70 inches long and 90 inches wide.
Just to illustrate how big the spam problem is:
Akismet have removed 70,359 spam comments from my blog in a year. Thats 193 spam comments every day! If we say that I could manually remove a single spam comment every second, it would take me 193 seconds - or about 3 minutes. This would mean that Aksimet have saved me 1095 minutes this year, and 1095 minutes is about 18 hours!
18 hours! I charge $200 every hour for freelance design and code work. Akismet have in other words saved me $3600 (18×200) this year! Thats a lot of money!
So, paying for Akismet? Yes, of course. Hopefully it will stay free, but if not: I would certainly have purchased a copy.
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