A Special Thanks to Go Daddy.

April 01, 2007, 11:09:53 PM Posted by HoTmetal on April 01, 2007, 11:09:53 PM in A Special Thanks to Go Daddy. | 27 Comments
A Special Thanks to Go Daddy.

The SMF Team received some exciting news recently. Domain Registrar Go Daddy donated a significant amount of money to the SMF project. Simple Machines would like to publicly thank Go Daddy here on our forums for their support.

"The open source community really helped make the Internet what it is today," said Warren Adelman, President and COO of GoDaddy.com. "These projects help millions of Web users everyday and we are grateful to groups like Joomla and Simple Machines for moving open source initiatives forward."


"We've made great strides in our [short] three year existence. A donation of this magnitude from Go Daddy is further validation of just how much our software has impacted the open source community," says Project Manager Amacythe of Simple Machines LLC.

We are thrilled to see Go Daddy reach out to the open source community. As an added thanks, we've put up a special "Thank You Go Daddy banner". Just our way of letting them know their donation was much appreciated.

For those interested, you can see the press release at Go Daddy's website.
WORLD'S DOMAIN NAME & HOSTING LEADER BACKS OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

Comments

Killer Possum on April 02, 2007, 12:23:14 AM said
Wow! That's really cool!!! Congrats. :)
Elmacik on April 02, 2007, 04:28:02 AM said
Really very good news.
Very nice to see open projects (especially like SMF) are supported by big companies like GoDaddy.
Go SMF :)
Harro on April 02, 2007, 04:31:43 AM said
Impressive!
Wonder if they donated to phpBB, MyBB,.. as well ;)
Elmacik on April 02, 2007, 04:37:11 AM said
Quote from: Harro on April 02, 2007, 04:31:43 AM
Impressive!
Wonder if they donated to phpBB, MyBB,.. as well ;)

In the press release, they (GoDaddy) mention only Joomla and SMF. Nothing else.
(Was yours a sarcasm? :) )
Harro on April 02, 2007, 04:39:53 AM said
A bit ;)
This is just another confirmation about the quality of SMF, the great forum, the great support,...
findallinone on April 02, 2007, 09:30:58 AM said
Good,congrats to SMF and JOOMLA.
metallica48423 on April 02, 2007, 09:41:18 AM said
good to hear :)
Gary on April 02, 2007, 10:58:43 AM said
Money, Money, Money, it's so funny, in a rich mans world!

hehe

Good to hear.

-ALM
Harro on April 02, 2007, 02:46:53 PM said
And how will the money be used?
metallica48423 on April 02, 2007, 02:54:11 PM said
Amy should buy us all cookies ;)
Harro on April 02, 2007, 03:55:13 PM said
Great idea :D
Daniel15 on April 02, 2007, 11:16:59 PM said
Quote from: Harro on April 02, 2007, 02:46:53 PM
And how will the money be used?
Probably paying to servers and stuff, but I have no idea (I'm just guessing).
Managing the money is the job of the Project Managers ;)
Bigguy on April 02, 2007, 11:31:41 PM said
Very nice. Glad to hear SMF is making such an impact. :)
Daniel Marquard on April 03, 2007, 12:54:56 PM said
Quote from: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/news/release_view.asp?news%5Fitem%5Fid=84GoDaddy.com® is giving back to the Internet community by supporting open source applications with cash donations of $10,000 each.

Quote from: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/news/release_view.asp?news%5Fitem%5Fid=84Simple Machines Forum ... received the donations from GoDaddy.com to assist in further development of their applications.

How is this possible?  If I remember correctly, SMF is not open source.
Grudge on April 03, 2007, 02:13:38 PM said
SMF is open source in the core understanding (all source is distributed with the product and can be modified). We simply have a custom licence which does not allow distribution by others. You dont need an osi license to be open source.
metallica48423 on April 03, 2007, 03:37:32 PM said
open source != open development
Joshua Dickerson on April 03, 2007, 04:24:17 PM said
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/opensource.php
Isaac on April 03, 2007, 05:02:37 PM said
Congratulations SMF!  :)
judymcl on April 14, 2007, 04:59:33 PM said
Wonderful news! Congratulations!
SticKer on May 13, 2007, 08:53:23 AM said
wow thats really good to hear
Thephatrican on May 15, 2007, 03:23:01 PM said
Not sure if you noticed this but on that Go Daddy Advertisement, if your mouse hovers over it, It says Goi Daddy, instead of Go Daddy.
HoTmetal on May 15, 2007, 03:35:00 PM said
Quote from: Thephatrican on May 15, 2007, 03:23:01 PM
Not sure if you noticed this but on that Go Daddy Advertisement, if your mouse hovers over it, It says Goi Daddy, instead of Go Daddy.

"I" its a new trend. I-pod, iGoogle, Go I-G Daddy j/k

Thanks for the catch, we'll fix asap
Skhilled on August 09, 2007, 07:56:35 AM said
This is good news, especially, since I host my domains with GoDaddy. I haven't had any problems ever with them. I have noticed a significant amount of advertising from them lately.
shadow82x on August 09, 2007, 11:04:41 AM said
Very great news! I was going to get my domain elsewhere but than I heard that godaddy donated a lot of money I went there. :P
Tristan Perry on August 09, 2007, 06:53:19 PM said
This is great to hear :) I wondered what the banners were all about (well, how much was donated :-[), although it's good to see that it is a serious move by GoDaddy :)
Nordoelum on August 12, 2007, 06:39:06 PM said
Congratulation to both Joomla! and SMF :) Fully deserved...
Xarcell on September 11, 2007, 10:40:26 PM said
It's great to see a large internet entity like godaddy make a donation to this community. Makes me think better of them :P
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