“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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The internet is fragmenting and healing. It was never supposed to be so centralized.

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it’s still frustrating how much is being lost though from our collective knowledge, especially with the dismantling of the internet archive. web 2.0 was definitively a mistake, and it’s one that almost everyone fell for

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Why was Web 2.0 a mistake and what does that have to do with centralization?

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web 2.0 was the generation of web technologies defined by a lower barrier to entry for web posting thanks to centralized platforms provided by for profit corporations. think facebook, reddit, twitter, youtube

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The old internet was the peak.

Mostly static Web pages and thousands of BBS forums was the greatest.

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My internet connection is over 100x faster than 20yrs ago, but pages still load slower…

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I remember doing everything with frames so I wouldn’t have to copy the header and menu onto every page.

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I blame the streaming boom and then password sharing crackdowns.

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