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Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress

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Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress

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Post by bilekas »

Again with this drama. Does this company never learn to just shut up already. They don't like that WPEngine made more money And wanted a piece of pie. Now claiming it's a trademark issue. When it stated that "WP" was not trademarked.

> Matt blocked WP Engine’s convenient access to resources he was under no obligation to provide such as the WordPress.org plugin directory

Just like WPEngine was under no obligation to pay towards Automattic.

I didn't think things could get more petty. It's infuriating and gives open source a bad name. "It's open untill we say so"

Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress

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Post by sionisrecur »

tedivm wrote: post #10

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 tha…

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.

Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress

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Post by 28304283409234 »

tedivm wrote: post #10

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 tha…

Mama always said: "Once you have given the gift, it is no longer yours to decide what happens to it."

Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress

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Post by sgammon »

withinboredom wrote: post #6
sgammon wrote: post #4

Completely misleading that "Wordpress runs 40%" of the internet when 6/10 packets are also somehow bound for first-party Google properties like YouTube (I guess that means all traffic is bound for either Wordpress or Google? /s). I'm not sure anybody cares. Really. Wordpress was relevant like 20 years ago. I will probably get downvoted into oblivion by the community of PHP enjoyers that still exist, and good for you…

I guess it depends on how you count (number of sites vs. number of packets). In any case, many sites include Google Analytics, so Google gets amplified in the packet metrics. Plus, PHP and WordPress are very different beasts. The PHP community has modernized on some standards that are pretty good (most of the time) while WordPress is stuck in 2008.

Google Analytics is valid web traffic
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