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Re: Response to DHH

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Post by FireBeyond »

hadad wrote: post #77
alexander2002 wrote: post #52

What is the endgoal for WpEngine.I am not following the drama closely. 1.Are they legally in the clear?(Note:Legally) 2.Can they rebrand to something other than Wp?

the 'wp' word never been legally trademarked. The usage is okay until Sep 24th [1], but becoming problematic since the king mad [2] 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240924024555/https://wordpress... 2. https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/

Except you can't acknowledge that "WP" isn't a trademark, and then say "you can't use it".

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by blueridge »

Kye wrote: post #25

>> "And you can arbitrarily cut off anyone publishing with Hey, they have no open source rights." This is not a serious person. This is not a self-aware person.

Yeah, no idea why he'd make this statement. It's not relevant, not important, not tied to reality.

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by bsimpson »

pluc wrote: post #97
fspoettel wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to have been edited already, it's missing some ad hominem attacks and the recommendation to see a therapist which were definitely present when this article was linked.

Here's a previous edit: https://archive.ph/7ZRbY

None of the archive links are loading for me, but maybe that's for the best.

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by ValentineC »

bsimpson wrote: post #104
pluc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a previous edit: https://archive.ph/7ZRbY

None of the archive links are loading for me, but maybe that's for the best.

If you're using Cloudflare DNS, they used to have some conflict with Archive.Today:

https://gist.github.com/ardislu/b2f2b4b439c5da2f7ccb6bb42e7a...

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by kotaKat »

_t4za wrote: post #19
liviux wrote: post #8

Lol, what a bunch of garbage talk. He just attacks dhh on random things like why he bought a car, not talking about any of dhh's points in his article. Matt trying hard to kill WordPress

By my estimation, about 45% of the article is about DHH's revenue which is irrelevant to the discussion about Matt's behavior. Links on HN about Matt and WordPress keep getting downranked, and that'll continue to happen as long as Matt is not interested in seriously discussing it. Not that my opinion matters, but my preference would be that Matt stops with the pithy comments like "this is a respectful debate" or "I'l…

> Links on HN about Matt and WordPress keep getting downranked, and that'll continue to happen as long as Matt is not interested in seriously discussing it.

Or until they stop using company employees as flag-and-downvote farms.

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by splatzone »

unconed wrote: post #44

>David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers. I will give full credit and respect. 37signals inspired tons of what Automattic does! We’re now half a billion in revenue. Why are you still so small? I'm just going to tell a little story here. A long time ago, I worked on a recolorable Drupal theme, w…

Ah man, that’s brutal. For what it’s worth, it’s a gorgeous theme and it made me excited to learn Drupal when I was 14!

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by meiraleal »

nikolay wrote: post #92
Ayesh wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WordPress coding standards is also full of padding. Spaces `like_this( foo, bar )`, curly braces on new lines, etc. Plus, WordPress bundles all JS and PHP dependencies, including a whole userland PHP polyfill for libsodium.

WordPress is the biggest bowl of spaghetti code in existence! I can't believe it powers 40% of the web! PHP could do tons better - Laravel is a proof that PHP projects could be beautifully coded, readable, and extensible! I've dealt with WordPress for so many years! It's sickening! Even the overglorified WooCommerce - I won't trust a business with it. I've done only a few sails and I had data loss, and so many issues…

> WordPress is the biggest bowl of spaghetti code in existence! I can't believe it powers 40% of the web!

That's not a real statistic. It powers 40% of the long tail of web but not 40% of the access. With Google + Meta included I would guess wordpress doesn't serve even 10% of web.

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by meiraleal »

unconed wrote: post #44

>David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers. I will give full credit and respect. 37signals inspired tons of what Automattic does! We’re now half a billion in revenue. Why are you still so small? I'm just going to tell a little story here. A long time ago, I worked on a recolorable Drupal theme, w…

If I didn't got it wrong, Matt asked about copying it, you said it was ok because it is GPL and you think that makes him a bad person?

I think this outrage against Matt is terrible in many ways but people are getting away with accusing him of anything they felt wronged. We are talking about a guy that created something in the level of Linux and Wikipedia. Give him some credit and respect ffs.

Re: Response to DHH

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Post by erikpukinskis »

meiraleal wrote: post #109
unconed wrote: post #44

>David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers. I will give full credit and respect. 37signals inspired tons of what Automattic does! We’re now half a billion in revenue. Why are you still so small? I'm just going to tell a little story here. A long time ago, I worked on a recolorable Drupal theme, w…

If I didn't got it wrong, Matt asked about copying it, you said it was ok because it is GPL and you think that makes him a bad person? I think this outrage against Matt is terrible in many ways but people are getting away with accusing him of anything they felt wronged. We are talking about a guy that created something in the level of Linux and Wikipedia. Give him some credit and respect ffs.

They said something like “you’re allowed, but we’d prefer you didn’t.”

So it’s a “you’re not wrong you’re just an asshole” situation.

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