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Re:October CMS as you know it is dead by Sebb767 on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:16PM (#27001413)
How? Users [0] are free to either go with October's new direction or switch to WinterCMS, which seems to be fully compatible and a minimal change as of now. Thanks to this, users can now actually choose which way they prefer, instead of being forced in either direction!

[0] As in "developers using the CMS"; for actual users of projects based on the CMS, absolutely nothing changes.

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Re:October CMS as you know it is dead by usbline on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:45PM (#27002090)
Not every user monitors every single goings on with their software. There is also no mention of the software becoming proprietary on the October CMS website. Users shouldn't have to keep tabs on their free software for fear of it becoming proprietary due to a hostile takeover.
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Re:October CMS as you know it is dead by hluska on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:44PM (#27002488)
It mentions their move to paid only on the homepage.
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Re:October CMS as you know it is dead by usbline on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:52PM (#27007761)
Paid doesn't mean proprietary.
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Re:October CMS as you know it is dead by hluska on Saturday May 01, 2021 @02:58PM (#27008834)
No, but you could click one link and read a short blog article - the word proprietary is just a few hundred words in.

Calling this a hostile takeover is being extremely overdramatic. There was a fork.

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