Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by onli on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:43AM
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HN isn't one person. There was always a lot of criticism of those closed source licenses. See for example the thread when Redis fell, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772562
Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by immibis on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:37AM
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WPEngine contributed a lot to WordPress. It was, in fact, one of the biggest sponsors of the conference it was just banned from participating in. It also wrote the most popular plugin.
When Matt says "contribute" he means monetarily. Probably (speculation) because his company is about to be bankrupt without finding a way to get more money.
Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by echelon on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:13AM
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Matt shouldn't have made his thing "open source" [1], just like Elastic and other vendors shouldn't have allowed Amazon to set up shop and steal their work.
Unrelated organizations coming in, soaking up all the profit, and not contributing back is horrible. "Open source" needs to be amended to prevent this.
Something like MAU, MRR, or market% seems like a healthy way to limit big time corporations from taking over.
[1] Hindsight is 20/20.
...and then exactly when a company is profiting from someone's open source project and that person is crying foul, the whole board is piling on the creator of that project primarily because they don't like _his tone_.
Bunch of hypocrites.