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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by martin_a on Friday September 27, 2024 @08:08AM (#41669445)
> Don't be an asshole and you won't have problems.

It seems like that is not really up to me.

When Matt Mullenweg gets up one morning and does not like my commercial product for WP, he might think of me as an asshole and will try to extort money from my business or just ruin it just like he did here.

Hard rules might be fine to take care of things like these.

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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by consteval on Friday September 27, 2024 @11:54AM (#41672083)
> It seems like that is not really up to me

it is. Don't issue hundreds of thousands of requests and then refuse to pay and you're good.

It's impossible to accidentally do this. Go ahead, write a script to send maximum requests to any free API of your choice. And then track how long before you're banned.

It's that simple and you're all over thinking it. The open source nature has absolutely zero to do with this.

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