Why the majority of people in the #WordPress community do not want it to fork: A thread. 🧵
(In which I generalize considerably for ease of language and unverified character limits.)
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“ The announcement portrays a8c as the victim, WPE as the aggressor and the WP community itself as complicit in undermining itself. The reality is that Matt Mullenweg is the aggressor, WPE is the attacked and the community are seeking to strengthen .org, not weaken it.”
“ The announcement portrays a8c as the victim, WPE as the aggressor and the WP community itself as complicit in undermining itself. The reality is that Matt Mullenweg is the aggressor, WPE is the attacked and the community are seeking to strengthen .org, not weaken it.”
This is totally crazy. Like if the operators of rubygems dot org just decided to expropriate the official Rails gems, hand over control to a new team, and lock the core team out of it. We're in uncharted and dangerous territory for open source now. What a sad sight.
This is totally crazy. Like if the operators of rubygems dot org just decided to expropriate the official Rails gems, hand over control to a new team, and lock the core team out of it. We're in uncharted and dangerous territory for open source now. What a sad sight.
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