"I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate", proceeds to insult the guy in every paragraph
Response to DHH
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#52What 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?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's clear to me now that the reason WordPress development has been stalled for so long is because Matt has been in charge this whole time and he has no idea what the development community actually wants/needs. So instead of in-housing a really basic tool like ACF he forces through garbage like Gutenberg.
Matt has unfortunately been very unresponsive to any feedback about what should or should not go into core. Despite claiming WordPress core is open-source and open to almost everyone, the team leaders responsible for what goes into each release have been all Automattic employees since 2019.
Which adds to the disingenuousness of all of this. Matt thinks WP Engine should have contributed more to the core... but only on features that Automattic decides? Clearly madness.
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#54>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 this happened in public, links?
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#55In this particular case, it's helpful to remember that two people can be wrong.
While helpful in general, on this topic DHH seems to be right about basically everything. Is there any specific point he makes that you disagree with?
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#56Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line. > I’m unsure why you felt you had to insert yourself into this fight with Silver Lake / WP Engine and take their side, but here we are. It seems that the fight has been made public with photomatt's constant commentary, at least on HN. Unconvincing.
He also links to the DHH post where DHH very specifically address the thing he claims to be confused about:
>I don't even have a dog in this fight, only a set of principles. If anything, I'd be naturally inclined to be on Team WordPress. Between creating one of the most widely used open-source programs and powering half the internet, there's every tribal reason to side with Automattic over WP Engine's private-equity owners at Silver Lake.
>But whatever my feelings about private equity in general or Silver Lake's management of WP Engine in particular, I care far more about the integrity of open source licenses, and that integrity is under direct assault by Automattic's grotesque claim for WP Engine's revenues.
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#57David, 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? Gonna go out on a limb here and say that following this paragraph with links to DHH's $2MM sports cars…
He's playing both sides so he always comes out on top.
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#58abolish copyright and move on
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#59>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 this happened in public, links?
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#60This trolling is unworthy of Hackernews, IMHO. It is just mudslinging without content.
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