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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:23:30 JST nixCraft 🐧

   WordPress is under GPLv2 (or later), and there is nothing preventing WordPress . org from making money by selling services to big providers like WP Engine. Matt/Automattic could have sorted out this mess privately instead of making it public drama. Everyone knows it costs money to maintain the public cloud and repository of all WP org add-ons and themes. This situation was not handled correctly. But, then, what do I know? Right? I have never been CEO of anything.

   #opensource #wordpress #gpl

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:30:41 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     The message "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" on their login page seems unnecessarily defensive and childish. It doesn't paint the project in a positive light and feels like the CEO needs to reconsider such choices. I understand that life is hard and not kind to many, so I'm not going to bash him, but please get help if you get agitated so easily. It is not worth it, my friend. I speak from experience.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:38:00 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Programmer 832-529 🍅

     @smallsees I agree. Both parties benefited financially from open-source software. Instead of creating drama, they need to act like adults and sort this out privately. Greed is always bad, especially when lots of money is involved.

   • Programmer 832-529 🍅 (smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:38:05 JST Programmer 832-529 🍅

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     @nixCraft
     It just makes them look real bad and unnecessarily annoying. This looks like another grubby corporate trying to close source or cash in..

     Now I know that they haven't changed the license and WPengine haven't exactly been innocent in all this, but still.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:43:17 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Linux Is Best

     @Linux I understand. thanks for another POV.

   • Linux Is Best (linux@kitty.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:43:32 JST Linux Is Best

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     @nixCraft@mastodon.social I am the minority I guess, because I support WordPress, both the dot com and dot org, along with their CEO.
     
     WPE (WordPress Engine) for a while kept making themselves appear as if they were WordPress. There are a lot of people who believes they were all the same company and WPE was making some serious bank (money), masking themselves as WordPress. But WPE and WordPress, themselves, offered different levels of support (quality).
     
     I think the CEO tried to handle this behind closed doors and WPE wasn't playing fairly. I also think WPE likely had more bank to ride this out in court, that it would have been worth for WordPress, and so the court of public opinion is where the CEO took this. Was it pretty? No. But sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

   • mastazi (mastazi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:47:34 JST mastazi

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     @nixCraft after Space Karen, we now have Blog Karen.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 18:48:44 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • mastazi

     @mastazi haha. that is funny.

   • John Regan (jprjr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 20:07:17 JST John Regan

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     @nixCraft I think I need some kind of breakdown detailing these different entities, I'm pretty confused.

     I know there's WordPress - the project. Then I think there's WordPress.org, which is basically the website for the project, and then there's WordPress.com, which I think is the commercial arm of the WordPress project that supports the open-source part, and WP Engine, which is a third-party company that provides hosting.

     So like... What the hell happened?

   • samiamsam (samiamsam@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:37:35 JST samiamsam

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     @nixCraft

     men will burn everything to the ground before they will get a qualified therapist