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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months ago

“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action

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“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months ago
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TL;DR: Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, co-founder of WordPress, and single point of failure for WordPress.org is trying to bully me…
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    there’s a ton of 'em

    the sticking point will be a plugin or theme you depend on

    third-party WP dev is extremely widely available, but not so much for other CMSes

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      Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.

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        there’s https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn’t have a ton of end users

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