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Re:Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress by tedivm on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:17PM (#42403433)
If you aren't familiar with this drama, please understand that Matt and the Automattic folks have absolutely lost their minds when their attempted extortion of a competitor failed.

One of the things about open source is people use it, and they might even compete against your company. If you can't handle that you shouldn't open source your code. Matt is doing far more damage to Wordpress and open source in general than anything WPEngine has done.

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Re:Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress by 28304283409234 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:56PM (#42403820)
Mama always said: "Once you have given the gift, it is no longer yours to decide what happens to it."
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Re:Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress by sionisrecur on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:42PM (#42403701)
What's interesting is that Matt is going only after WPEngine. Other providers making lots of money from WP are off the hook. Maybe, ironically, because they didn't go 100% on WP and diversified into other cms.
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