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Are you now, or have you ever been... a WP Engine customer?
Nope. I have used WordPress on a blog or two, but I didn't know what WP Engine was until a couple of weeks ago.
Sorry if you took that as a literal accusation, it was meant to be some light-hearted McCarthyism satire cast upon this whole sad state of affairs.
I lived through the time when every other website was a malware farm because of that POS platform.
I don't think there is a single other piece of software that inspire me so much hate as wordpress so I'm really rooting for a complete implosion of anything WP related and that Mullenweg end up forced to sell his body for food in Pattaya.
Haven’t used anything related to Wordpress in 15 years. Seems I’ll make that a permanent decision now.
I'd just like to point out that WordPress is GPL, so anyone could do whatever they want with the code, including Auttomatic. If people using the software in a way that, although uncool, is totally something they agreed to, the best bet would be to leave WordPress as-is and spin continued development into a new product with a new license. Would people like it? No. Do people like this, though? Hell no.
The GPL is not a "whatever" license.
No, but it’s basically a “I can use it to build my billion-dollar business and keep the profits if I want” license. The only real catch is that if I decide to modify the code and distribute it, I’m required by the license to share those changes with whoever gets the modified version. There’s nothing in the GPL that stops me from being a downstream freeloader, and I can stay on whatever version I like—no one’s forcing me to update to newer ones with terms I don’t agree with. Forking and modifying for my own needs is totally fine, as long as I slap the same GPL on the changes if I hand them out.
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Do you condemn ~~Hamas~~ WordpressEngine?!
Condemn, renounce AND denounce !
They make bank off open source, undermine the business model of the company that does most of the development while only giving back minor contributions back.
** Church organ music intensifies...
"I do renounce him."
Priest: and all his works?
"I do renounce them." I'm out of the loop, what is WP Engine and why is the rich weirdo in control of WordPress being so weird about it?
WordPress is open source, there's a foundation and stuff. The Matt Mullenweg, the guy that started the software and CEO of Automatic (which is the main company) is super upset that WP Engine (another company) is using the software without contributing much to the foundation.
I mean it's a valid gripe, but there's not much anyone can do about it. But Matt Mullenweg is, like you say, being super weird about it.
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