Shut Up. I'm Talking.
I'm David Perel, co-Founder of Obox Design. I make things. Don’t expect anything of what I say to make sense. You can stalk me on twitter or be inspired on dribbble.
A few weeks ago Cape Town played host to WordCamp and since Obox is a WP theme company based in South Africa we were invited to talk.
Initially the plan was to talk about Obox Mobile in the developer track but I decided that I should rather tell the story of Obox because I think we have a lot to share in that department.
The title of the talk was “Post Boxes to Inboxes.” Click play to find out why.
Link: We’ve finally released an Obox Membership option
So this has been a looong time coming but I think that the timing, in terms of our theme collection and whats coming up, couldn’t be better.
It basically costs $150 to sign up and then only $15 a month to be a member. Being a member gets you full access to all our themes sold on site and discounts for those sold off it.
For our business it is a big step, there is now the possibility of genuine annuity revenue and that excites me very much.
Some peeps may wonder why we charging ‘so much’ to sign up but technically if you wanted to buy all the themes on our site it would cost almost $1000 and you would not get access to any future ‘awesome’.
In some cases we are cheaper than the competition and still offer more PER theme. To cut a long story short I believe it’s a bargain and I am looking forward to seeing the results 
I don’t want this to turn into some giant argument but just hear me out.
Everyone raves about GPL, the community, giving back, blah blah. This kind of stuff generally drives me a bit mad but whatever, drop in the ocean stuff.
WordPress 3.0 features a brand new way to organize your navigation. This is all good and I am keen to implement it in our themes.
What does bug me though is that although it’s getting a huge amount of coverage I am yet to see anyone give Woothemes (yes my competition) any credit for coming up with the system.
I believe in situations like this they should get full credit but because of GPL, the community and giving back, it’s just a footnote.
That is BS.
EDIT
After reading/hearing ya’lls comments and blog posts, I have come to realize the reality of the situation 
So, its not BS but I still don’t like it.
I know that 90% of the code was re-written but at the end of the day, the idea, the concept the core of the feature was created by said company.
Maybe give the person/company with the idea of the new feature the ‘honor’ of naming that new feature.
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