Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress
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Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress
#2Small discussion at the time (20 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42164923
Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress
#3I don't think this document has been modified since it was first published around a month ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20241104192103/https://automatti...
(I tried running a diff on the current text v.s. the Internet Archive copy from 4th November and unless I made a mistake there have been no updates.)
Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress
#4Completely 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 guys, I love that you love Wordpress so much. I don't think any of this will change PHP or Wordpress or the thousands of sites that use it. Matt is spending political capital at an unrecoverable rate and the courts are not going to side with him here, I think.
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#5Ah yes, the Big Bad Evil private equity firms behind WP Engine, which are completely different from the private equity firms behind Automattic. And those 3 private equity board members at Automattic? Just ignore them, they don't exist - focus on those at WP Engine!
Is WP Engine "evil" and predatory? Maybe, possibly. I haven't seen any concrete evidence either way. Is Automattic evil and predatory? Absolutely! We've seen plenty of evidence of that, and it is very clear that they can't be trusted with Wordpress.
Re: Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress
#6Completely 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.
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#7Ecosystem, Open Source, and Freedom sure are bandied about quiet freely by the same guy who says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", and then unilaterally gets to decide what plugins are available to WordPress users.
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#8Well, all this petty mud-throwing has shown me one thing; I will always pick alternatives over the products Automatticc offers.
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#9Here's hoping, WordPress, the software will be spared in this corporate vs corporate.
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#10If 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 than anything WPEngine has done.