[EwanToo]

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like :

"You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)."

So they won't be open sourcing it then if they're planning on not allowing people to add these features to the main code base?

[joshmaker]

The two features they list as "extra" by going with them are automatic backups and updates, both of which are hosting features, not software features.

[Orva]

"Ghost is an Open Source application", tiny github image link in footer and organization has no public repositories.. (https://github.com/tryghost)

[mwill]

No repo's because it's not released yet, it's a kickstarter.

re: tiny github image link, the video does specifically mention it's a project targeted at users, not developers, so I guess having things like that as a footnote make sense. Can't comment on how this strategy will work out, guess we'll see.

[Orva]

Yeah, it took quite long to notice that it was kickstarter ad. Although there is something done if you believe actual kickstarter page.

Also, whole point of first paragraph in the site is to promote that app is open source and what benefits it brings to the users. So using open source for marketing and then kind of hiding actual source.. not nice.

[skattyadz]

I don't think that's what they're saying at all. I think they're saying there are some features that are going to work best on an integrated hosting platform, just by their nature