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WordPress retaliation impacts community

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238 points chmaynard | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 04:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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dovin ◴[17 Oct 24 04:51 UTC] No.41866511[source]▶
I've been trying to wrap my head around why this feels so wrong. If the project had been run like this from the beginning, in an opinionated way that prioritizes what the few creators of the project think are important, then that's one thing. But it seems like Wordpress has generally been the stable, boring, slow-moving project that isn't run like a personal fiefdom, and Mullenweg is trying to force it from the one model to the other. I haven't used Wordpress in years, and this drama makes me never want to use it again.
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1. fbnlsr ◴[17 Oct 24 06:48 UTC] No.41867049[source]▶
I'm probably wrong here, but my tinfoil hat take is that Matt has seen how well Taylor Otwell is doing with Laravel and he wants a piece of that cake. Granted they're doing pretty good with wordpress.com hosting, but they'd have so much more money if they licenced plugins and features the way Laravel does.
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2. FireBeyond ◴[17 Oct 24 16:40 UTC] No.41871239[source]▶
That might be part of it, though I think the more pressing boat anchor around Automattic's neck is the money pit that Tumblr is, for what seems like very little return.