ZenHabits go open source, no copyright whatsoever
Popular blogger Leo Babauta has gone Open Source, he says it’s okay to steal my content now. He is allowing people to use his blog’s content in any way people like. After this, I am sure his blog posts will be popping up in many blogs throughout the internet (especially when people are out of ideas and have nothing to post about).
His ebook Zen to Done is very popular too, selling over 1,000 copies within two weeks. It’s an ebook about productivity that is created out of his blog’s content. Currently selling at $9.50. If you do not want to go through his blog’s archive, you can buy this book.
In the same post, he argues that going open source won’t hurt his PageRank and his eBook sales. As you know Google sometimes punishes for duplicate content, when people start copying his content, his blog might get punished. He also talks about other interesting issues regarding copyright, check out his post.
In my opinion, he will do just fine, I think going open source will bring only good things for him. He will get free advertising and his readership will jump many many folds in the near future (currently he has more than 36,000 RSS readers).
What’s your opinion on Leo’s move? Do you think other bloggers should follow his suit?
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By alzack on Jan 27, 2008
That’s really generous of him!!!
By MR-Gee on Jan 27, 2008
I think that’s a very stupid move from his side. He will surely get penalized by search engines.
By Sergio on Jan 29, 2008
many people wants to do the same thing but this crap of Google PR make all good intentions on problem, thanks to this guy we have a new vision on the content and copywright in the web.
cheers!!