WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin.
WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin.
WordPress.org flexes its control of open-source plugins.
Holy crap he is just continuing to build the case against him. His own for-profit automattic's plugins have built in upsells and add additional data harvesting code that you can't opt out of while you use them.
He just keeps treating the non-profit .org stuff and his Automattic for-profit as interchangable.
It's time for the community to find a solution for distributed update servers that at most only rely on Mullenweg for hash checking to prevent tanpering. This is blatantly just a vendetta now.
It's time for a fork that's not under hostile control.
F this guy. He's only causing more work and I hate working.
This article leaves me with more questions than answers
Haven’t dived too deep in this case. But aren’t WP engine leeching the open source project while barely contributing back to the OSS project?
Then the mistake was made many years ago by releasing the code under GPLv2, with no obligation to contribute back.
I'd like to preface this with the fact that I do donate time, money, and on occasion PRs to open source projects.
But frankly, I don't believe anyone has any obligation to donate to an open source project.
I also don't think anyone has any obligation to give 8% of their revenue to a project that's completely under the control of a man that ALSO runs a commercial entity extracting money from the same project.
And I REALLY don't think you have any obligation to give a guy worth $400 million one damn cent for using his GPL-ed software.
It's not like he's going to take the money and give it to the people in the community developing it, it's going to go into his business - and thus right into his pockets.
This is just CEO corpo greed, and frankly, screw Matt. He has enough, and if his business is falling over because he got greedy and got into bed with VC and bought a failed social media network, well, that's his problem and not everyone who uses Wordpress'.
I completely agree that individuals have no responsibility to contribute, and thank you for your own contributions. But I completely disagree that a company like WP Engine should get a free pass. I see this as a paradox of tolerance and someone is willing to lose face and money over it. He didn't get to $400m by hording, he got there by creating and sharing WordPress and promoting a community that is supposed to lift us all up
Yeah I don't understand the comments here. Sounds like dude took a freemium software and decided to officially take ownership of developing a fully Foss version. Sounds good to me.
But doesn't that definition apply to the vast majority of people/companies that use WordPress?