[wp-edu] Latex support in WordPress?

[Jim Groom]

Matt,

To be clear DTLT at UMW has a $28,000 a year  budget and we run our WP
hosting install with 25% of that (besides payrolls) . Obviously you are not
in touch with what is happening in highered in terms of money, and I can
imagine you don't care given you are more of the Richard Branson travel the
world money entreprenuer type, but in the real world we have budgets, we
live on the public dime, and we are making the world safe for democracy,
not crude capital.

#occupyakismet!

Jim Groom

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:

> On 11/28/11 7:48 AM, Jim Groom wrote:
>
>> it's not that we have a problem with paying for Akismet, quite the
>> opposite. We just think the $900 price point is insane.  I can imagine
>> small businesses feel the same way.  it is more than our monthly
>> external hosting fees.
>>
>
> It probably costs more to run a university than the rent on the buildings,
> too. :)
>
> I realize budgeting at many institutions is screwed up, and I think it's
> sad that folks running WP someplace with a 95M yearly budget (10x what it
> costs to host all of WP.com) that's probably saving hundreds of thousands
> in software and maintenance costs can't get approval for 10-20k/yr for
> things like Akismet and VaultPress.
>
> At the same time we have small businesses making a few 100k a year signing
> up for both, the main difference seems to be less distance between the
> person holding the pursestrings and doing the work.
>
> </rant> I know I'm in the wrong place to talk about this. :)
>
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