I wrote to DHH at the time hoping the Hey World part could be open sourced or ONCE as a blogging platform. But he wasn't interested in the idea.

The guy already created immense value by his open source work. It's fine for him not to open source everything.

	▲	nchmy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		And he continues to churn out popular open source projects - m9st recently related to moving off-cloud, using Linux etc... And ruby on rails continues to evolve immensely whereas WordPress is stuck in 2005