“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.”
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.
Wow this might be an end of an era. Crazy. The wp community has been around for a large part of my stay on the Internet. Wild.
Mullenweg shat the bed again?
The internet is fragmenting and healing. It was never supposed to be so centralized.
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
The old internet was the peak.
Mostly static Web pages and thousands of BBS forums was the greatest.
Why was Web 2.0 a mistake and what does that have to do with centralization?
How long until some organization forks the project and everybody switches to it?
With all the plugins etc. it might take a while, but once a critical mass is reached it would put an end to this idiocy.
