Supporting the blogging community.
Posted by Peter Ford in UncategorizedJan 6th, 2007 | 2 responses
Suffering from a sort of design hyperactivity, I’ve changed the look of this blog yet again. The designer of this WordPress theme, Fredrik Fahlstad, offers this and other cool designs to the community to use for free. It must have cost him a fair bit of time though to design this template and I think it only fair that I should throw a financial ‘thank-you’ his way. I found a donate button on his blog and sent him 20 quid via paypal. I had never done that before for a free theme design. This particular theme has been downloaded 1308 times so far. If everyone contributed something to their favourite designer (or plugin creator) then that person would probably be even more inclined to continue producing (and supporting) themes and plugins. It seems to go against the grain in education though, paying for something that you can get for free. Shame really…
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Yes, why is it that education expects to get things for free? Is it because the teacher pay is seen as low? Is it because we are a service organization? We expect free mail for education, tax exempt status, discounts, rebates, and yet what do we do that deserves this more than any other group of community servants? Do the firemen, policemen, politicians get these same perks?
I love the word free. I have found very very few things that are truly free. Someone pays somewhere along the line.
I’m not sure that this phenomenon is restricted to just educators. Everyone rightly wants value-for-money but sometimes stuff is worth paying for, if only as a way of saying ‘thank-you’