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" WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. "

Matt Mullenweg

Hands

Freedom

Service

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Building

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Feel

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