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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by seanwilson on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:56PM (#30173505)
Doesn't seem to be open source: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by ivanmontillam on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:09AM (#30173975)
It doesn't have to be open source to be successful.

I understand that open source things can increase reach of the product, but that's at the expense of proper software support.

Let's accept some proprietary software in our lives. Sometimes these have demostrated technical superiority.

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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by gnz11 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:16AM (#30177814)
> I understand that open source things can increase reach of the product, but that's at the expense of proper software support.

Lots of open source projects offer premium support.

> Let's accept some proprietary software in our lives. Sometimes these have demostrated technical superiority.

Sure, but let's not pretend proprietary vendors know more than open-source projects and contributors. Also, if your product is ultimately the content itself, it's an enormous risk to hand that over to third parties that want to take control of it. You are explicitly coupling yourself to the success of the proprietary software vendor.

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Re:The complicated futility of WordPress by andrei_says_ on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:02AM (#30174646)
I believe the source is available on github and the team accepts pull requests. Single user license is free.
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