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Re:BackPress: Core PHP libraries for your web applications by nir on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @09:00PM (#1011310)
HN discussion seems to have taken a pretty negative attitude recently. WP are letting anyone use the code that powers their own apps. For free. In return we complain about the license (how many people write PHP code to be distributed without the source anyway? Wordpress itself is under GPL and seems to do quite nicely) or doubt the security.
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Re:BackPress: Core PHP libraries for your web applications by mncaudill on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @10:20PM (#1011442)
I'm not sure that this is a WordPress/Automattic release. I couldn't find any indication of who actually is behind this, and the annoying hover ads are a weird touch.
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Re:BackPress: Core PHP libraries for your web applications by AdamGibbins on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @10:43PM (#1011483)
Automattic are behind it, at least it comes from their repo: http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk
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Re:BackPress: Core PHP libraries for your web applications by mncaudill on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @11:12PM (#1011531)
I stand corrected.

The ads are still strange though.

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Re:BackPress: Core PHP libraries for your web applications by thechangelog on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @12:30AM (#1011620)
They're not ads, just a much-maligned preview "feature" from snap.com.
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