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1. Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2013 21:34:06 EDT Blaise Alleyne
   WordPress.com is using proprietary themes? http://theme.wordpress.com/ REALLY? After the whole stink about non-GPL themes? #WordPress
   • The Geek (thegeek)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2013 21:45:14 EDT The Geek

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     @balleyne one of our customers paid +/- $40k for a WordPress theme (it gave them exclusive use, included drm t…
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2013 21:56:46 EDT Blaise Alleyne

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     • The Geek
     @thegeek: yikes. DRM? How... would that even work? lol
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2013 22:00:12 EDT Blaise Alleyne

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     #Wordpress.com "premium" themes are infuriating, 1st real wordpress.com lock-in. Before, you could easily move to another host. Dealbreaker.
   • The Geek (thegeek)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2013 22:40:40 EDT The Geek

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     some sort of key was generated that was created w/a combination of the domain name, the location of the WP in…
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2013 00:10:28 EDT Blaise Alleyne

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     • The Geek
     @thegeek wow... and... if someone else ever did get the code, couldn't they just strip that out?
   • The Geek (thegeek)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2013 00:29:26 EDT The Geek

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     no the key is unique and the theme is useless w/o it (the devs apparently need the domain, where in file struc…
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2013 01:14:09 EDT Blaise Alleyne

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     • The Geek
     @thegeek ouch, what a mess
   • The Geek (thegeek)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2013 12:12:09 EDT The Geek

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     yeah, it’s a horror story i now use when telling my minions why just moving website files around haphazardly is a bad idea.
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