• irotsoma
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    282 months ago

    I don’t get the logic of cutting off contributions of any kind unless they were actively sabotaging the projector something. Seems like that just makes the fork basically a guarantee. And in open source, a fork that discourages community is always going to be at a disadvantage.

  • @YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    362 months ago

    I think he misunderstands the label/title “benevolent dictator for life” that can get assigned to people on some really popular open source projects.

    • Revv
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      322 months ago

      Honestly, it’s kind of heartening how infrequently they forget the benevolent part.

      • @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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        32 months ago

        Humans can’t do then benevolent part for very long.

        You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we’re just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.

        (Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn’t help, and boy howdy.)

  • ZeroOne
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    102 months ago

    As if people didn’t Clone Wordpress already, let’s call it BlogPrint

  • Bobby Turkalino
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    592 months ago

    Speaks at Disrupt

    People try to disrupt his profit

    “No you can’t do that”

  • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1602 months ago

    Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn’t it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

    Sad part is that he’s likely to get away with this pne since it’s not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      372 months ago

      This will not kill Wordpress outright but it might very well significantly factor into the decision of every future person deciding if they should write a plugin to support Wordpress or some alternative CMS or if they should host a Wordpress instance or something else, especially companies offering commercial hosting.

      It might even lead to a project or two that will eventually replace Wordpress in its dominant position.

        • mesa
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          112 months ago

          It’s not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.

          • @limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            32 months ago

            I program a lot with both wp and laravel over the last years. Not sure what I want to say other than they are cool but different vibes and skills.

            Wp can be used out in the box by almost anyone who is web savvy; laravel is always needing some assembly, at the least, so the entry there is programming or deep pockets to pay that.

            Wp community and sites is probably a thousand times larger than laravel?

  • _cryptagion [he/him]
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    332 months ago

    Wonder how pissy he’s gonna be when the project is forked and everyone leaves the original.

  • katy ✨
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    932 months ago

    remember when matt publically attacked a trans woman on twitter because she called him out about his transphobia

  • @thejml@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    So, someone else forks it and then the contributors just fork that one. This is dumb gate keeping when there are other gates readily available nearby.

    Pretty sure no one told this guy how FOSS is supposed to work or what licensing even means.

    Best case scenario here he’s basically asking for is that the open source community forks this to a new project, stops contributing at all to the official one and since he’s announced he will literally have one developer work on this (45hrs per week, down from 4000 supposedly), the new fork becomes the defacto standard and his company is left peddling old wares full of bugs and exploits no one wants.

  • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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    352 months ago

    just filing this away…

    … t… u… v… w… x… woops. back up.

    w.

    there we go.

    right before xfree86 in the file of forgotten projects that fucked-up big, and lost.

    • @Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      xfree86

      I’m about to look this up, I better not be disappointed with how they bombed their own project …

      Edit: that did not disappoint