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WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – Computerworld (www.computerworld.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“My sense is that many enterprise WordPress administrators will think twice about continuing to use the software under these circumstances,” said IDC Research Manager Michele Rosen. “It’s such a shame to watch a leader in the open source community repeatedly sabotage his own project.”

“At this point, I have real concerns about the impact of Matt Mullenweg’s words and actions on the overall image of open source software,” she added. “Even if he feels that WP Engine’s actions are unethical and the court is wrong, his actions are clearly having an impact on the WordPress ecosystem, including his own business. It seems self-destructive.”

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Matt never ceases to amaze with his smoothbrain decisions.

The amount of effort this moron puts into his weird personal vendetta against WP engine, even after the court told him that he has nothing, which was actually his last chance to end this kinda gracefully, could've been used for so much better things.

And he's not only successfully kicking himself in the balls, he's willing to throw so many years of community and project time and effort under the bus for it.

Go on Matt, keep telling how much you're only doing this for WordPress.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I fully expect him to step on his dick, but I did not expect him to also kick himself in the balls while doing so.

Congrats Matt, rarely are my expectations of dumb behavior exceeded so spectacularly!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How long until some organization forks the project and everybody switches to it?

With all the plugins etc. it might take a while, but once a critical mass is reached it would put an end to this idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Wordpress is Open Source. Assuming the license is kept in tact and not violated, anyone can fork the code repository and release it to the public.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The internet is fragmenting and healing. It was never supposed to be so centralized.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

it's still frustrating how much is being lost though from our collective knowledge, especially with the dismantling of the internet archive. web 2.0 was definitively a mistake, and it's one that almost everyone fell for

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Mullenweg shat the bed again?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Wow this might be an end of an era. Crazy. The wp community has been around for a large part of my stay on the Internet. Wild.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This could also spark the creation of an alternative hub to wordpress.org, one that would be truly operated in the interest of the [open source] community.

I really hope so.

The current one bans most plugin forks, it's a bit of farce to prop up freemium plugins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is this Aspirepress?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It would be nice to have the ability to host a third-party repository. We do it for Linux, F-Droid, etc why not Wordpress?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Composer + other hosting is a much better spot in my opinion.

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