People who don’t support forking don’t actually support the concept of open source/free software.
Forking is essential.
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Forking is essential.
No one should care if matt is unpleasant when they can just fork and be done with him.
The problem is that the tens of thousands of small businesses who placed their trust in Wordpress will be damaged by this. I know - anecdotally - that many of those people like Wordpress “because it is free” (like both beer and speech) and because they know - even fuzzily - that because of that there’s lots of cool useful stuff that is available.
Now, sure, a lot of that cool useful stuff will still work with a fork. But it splits the message and gradually - not overnight - people developing that cool and useful stuff may lose faith and do something else.
What Millenweg is doing hits at the very heart of what open source means - and what community means - and is, as far as I can see, an absolutely cynical move made in the pursuit of profit and vanity.
Yes it takes time and effort etc, but wouldn't it be worth it?
I at least would not find it worth any of my time to contribute anything that has anything to do with the WordPress.org domain.