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Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#81

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What a choice, and what poor timing. Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.

Nothing has broken. Perhaps WP Engine should have consider that before suing us.

I've vouched this comment. I don't think we should be flagging this comment; it's not particularly out of line, and there's a significant interest in the community seeing Mullenweg's comments.

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#82
post #30

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The fucked thing is that per the article, they're not even dedicating any resources to maintain it going forward, they've just made this one fix and are throwing it to other people to maintain if they want: > Going forward, Secure Custom Fields is now a non-commercial plugin, and if any developers want to get involved in maintaining and improving it, please get in touch.

We have taken on stewardship of this code going forward, and will dedicate engineers to it. Probably more than Silver Lake does.

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Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#83

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ACF isn’t a premium plugin (linked post only concerns those). The linked post also might not reflect the current policies. This update was a security update and was done due to the unique circumstances around the original publisher.

There are a lot of other employers that won't make you lie for them.

If you point to any lies told by me, I would love to correct them.

No one has told me to come here and defend anyone. I work at a part of Automattic that is isolated from anything WordPress — I don’t have to be here.

I am defending values I believe in. I am trying to make sure correct information is out there.

You are free to not believe that of course.

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#84

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> When I posted, I was under the impression that ACF was open source. But the GitHub repo doesn’t list one, so if it’s not open source…WTF. Isn't it here? https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf If you mean the licence, it's in readme.txt: https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf/blob/master/read...

Clearly AdvancedCustomFields should have filed a trademark to prohibit Wordpress from fully stealing it. GPL code, trademarked branding. If you want to fork then you have to actually fork. Oh the irony.

> Clearly AdvancedCustomFields should have filed a trademark to prohibit Wordpress from fully stealing it.

They did:

Advanced Custom Fields — https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98321164&caseSearchType=U...

ACF — https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98321135&caseSearchType=U...

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#85

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What a choice, and what poor timing. Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.

Nothing has broken. Perhaps WP Engine should have consider that before suing us.

Guy who started a fight tells target to stop hitting themselves

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#86

Wordpress banned forks from the plugin directory a while ago, so they're doing what they ban everyone else from doing. https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2021/02/16/reminder-forke...

ACF isn’t a premium plugin (linked post only concerns those). The linked post also might not reflect the current policies. This update was a security update and was done due to the unique circumstances around the original publisher.

Spamming nonsense isn't a good look...

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#87
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Pathetic. Matt banned one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Then, he forked the code and hosted it on WP.org, which is against the Terms of Service. He also hosted it in the plugin directory on the same path as ACF, stealing its SEO traffic. Wow! Matt's state of mind is clearly not good. If I were an investor in WordPress, I would start thinking about cutting my losses. WordPress will not recover from this self-…

Have you read the GPL?

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#88

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There are a lot of other employers that won't make you lie for them.

If you point to any lies told by me, I would love to correct them. No one has told me to come here and defend anyone. I work at a part of Automattic that is isolated from anything WordPress — I don’t have to be here. I am defending values I believe in. I am trying to make sure correct information is out there. You are free to not believe that of course.

If Microsoft took over an existing GitHub repo, would those values be the same?

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#89

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There are a lot of other employers that won't make you lie for them.

If you point to any lies told by me, I would love to correct them. No one has told me to come here and defend anyone. I work at a part of Automattic that is isolated from anything WordPress — I don’t have to be here. I am defending values I believe in. I am trying to make sure correct information is out there. You are free to not believe that of course.

What values are those, exactly?

Re: Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org

#90
post #25

Pathetic. Matt banned one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Then, he forked the code and hosted it on WP.org, which is against the Terms of Service. He also hosted it in the plugin directory on the same path as ACF, stealing its SEO traffic. Wow! Matt's state of mind is clearly not good. If I were an investor in WordPress, I would start thinking about cutting my losses. WordPress will not recover from this self-…

Have you read the GPL?

Eventually you are going to have to confront that the distance between 'technical correctness' and 'moral correctness' is vaster than you apparently think it is.
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