“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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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.

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

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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?

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Is this Aspirepress?

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