What the heck is going on with WordPress?
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#2Someone wants to be included in a lawsuit....
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#3Tldr: This employee of Automattic stresses that he independently agrees with every complaint that his boss has. He wants us to know that this is a nuanced situation in which he has weighed all things and discovered that the person that pays him is objectively correct
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#4If Matt thinks he has a legitimate trademark claim, file it in court, don't play games with 3.5 million WordPress end-users that are now cut off from security updates -- including all users of the ACF plugin that aren't even WPE customers. This blog post did nothing to explain the logic behind Matt's actions (and shifting explanations for them). The only convincing sounding explanations I've found have been on Twitter, and they all revolve around WP's stagnation and Automattic's market weakness, not anything WPE has done, and nothing that will end if WPE pays the extortion demands.
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#5Wow this sounds so entitled. The more i read posts from the pro-automattic side, the more it sounds WPEngine is in the right.
Yes its nice if people contribute back. It is however optional. Not just in the well-technically sense, but in the broader moral sense.
If you give something away for free, wait for someone to build a business around it, and then say, well actually its not free, there are strings: that is unethical. That is a bait and switch.
If you want to sell a project, than you should sell it. If you want to make it open source, then don't be surprised when people use it as such. You can't just change the terms of the deal because one of the companies using your open source product happens to make a bunch of money.
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#6Recently I found a virus on a clients WPE site. I reached out to there suppory and they told me it was because we were on there shared server plan and we needed to upgrade to there dedicated plan. From $20/mo to literally $2000/mo.
Maybe Matt's not going about it the way everyone wants him to, but at least he's trying to do something about this parasite.
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#7Recently I found a virus on a clients WPE site. I reached out to there suppory and they told me it was because we were on there shared server plan and we needed to upgrade to there dedicated plan. From $20/mo to literally $2000/mo. Maybe Matt's not going about it the way everyone wants him to, but at least he's trying to do something about this parasite.
Their statement implies they're preinstalling viruses on shared server clients' sites.
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#8If Matt thinks he has a legitimate trademark claim, file it in court, don't play games with 3.5 million WordPress end-users that are now cut off from security updates -- including all users of the ACF plugin that aren't even WPE customers. This blog post did nothing to explain the logic behind Matt's actions (and shifting explanations for them). The only convincing sounding explanations I've found have been on Twitte…
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Re: What the heck is going on with WordPress?
#9Recently I found a virus on a clients WPE site. I reached out to there suppory and they told me it was because we were on there shared server plan and we needed to upgrade to there dedicated plan. From $20/mo to literally $2000/mo. Maybe Matt's not going about it the way everyone wants him to, but at least he's trying to do something about this parasite.
Their statement implies they're preinstalling viruses on shared server clients' sites.
The could also be incompetent, or competent enough to maintain plausible deniability while guaranteeing viruses will eventually land.
(I’m taking the original claim at face value for the sake of argument.)
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#10Hope I'm not too late to the party. This is the first time I've read a link about the Wordpress spat; mostly because ... well ... HN is a firehose.
So, "What the heck is going on with WordPress?" IE, does anyone have any links that explain what happened in a neutral, unbiased (within reason) manner?
IE, I certainly respect the opinion in the linked article, but I'm so new to the story that I'm not comfortable agreeing or disagreeing with the points in the article.