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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 4 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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blackeyeblitzar ◴[11 Jan 25 19:51 UTC] No.42668473[source]▶
I haven’t followed this whole controversy closely but I don’t see a problem with this personally. It’s aggressive but this person spent most of their life building Wordpress to what it is, giving it dedicated focus for a couple decades. Why should WPEngine or others get to suck up the money from that?
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1. prmoustache ◴[11 Jan 25 20:55 UTC] No.42668857[source]▶
> Why should WPEngine or others get to suck up the money from that?

Because that person chose a license that allows that for a start?

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2. andrewmcwatters ◴[11 Jan 25 21:15 UTC] No.42668989[source]▶
Wordpress itself is a fork.
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3. boredtofears ◴[11 Jan 25 21:32 UTC] No.42669073[source]▶
I didn’t know that. What did it fork from?
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4. amiga386 ◴[11 Jan 25 21:34 UTC] No.42669085{3}[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress#History

> b2/cafelog, more commonly known as b2 or catalog, was the precursor to WordPress