On Octo­ber 7 at Schip­ul­Con 2011 in Hous­ton, Matt Mul­len­weg, founder of Word­Press, and Dries Buy­taert, founder of Dru­pal, shared the stage for a fas­ci­nat­ing ques­tion and answer ses­sion about their CMS plat­forms, their ecosys­tems, and open source in general.

Both founders are pas­sion­ate about their soft­ware, pas­sion­ate about their com­mu­ni­ties, and pas­sion­ate about open source — not just as a way to write soft­ware, but as a way of life. In this hon­est exchange, Matt and Dries reveal the dif­fer­ent ori­gins and philoso­phies behind Dru­pal and Word­Press that influ­ence their strengths and weak­nesses, and the two inno­va­tors explain how the plat­forms com­ple­ment each other.

Prob­lems with micro­phones mar the first four min­utes of audio; the other fifty min­utes are fine. Tran­scripts of a few of their answers are on the Schipul blog.