| ▲ | legitster 2 hours ago |
| > WordPress founder and a key advocate for the open source community This should probably say self appointed advocate. He really hasn't advocated for much beyond collecting payments to Automattic. |
|
| ▲ | runjake 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| > He really hasn't advocated for much Like him or hate him, he grew WordPress to be one of the most popular open source projects of all time. It seems fair to call him a key advocate. WordPress is still GPL licensed. |
| |
| ▲ | legitster 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > WordPress is still GPL licensed. Only because it's forced to be because it in turn was a fork of a previous GPL license. It should be noted that Mullenweg has regularly weaponized the GPL license in the past - using it to take out other companies in the ecosystem like in their fight against Thesis. | |
| ▲ | larodi 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | LLMs will surely fix this ubiquitous position of WP very soon. | | |
| ▲ | hungryhobbit 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Doubtful. Code isn't what keeps OSS projects going: people do. Claude can reproduce Wordpress with enough tokens. Claude cannot reproduce the community of maintainers, plug-in authors, users reporting bugs, etc. that is what any real user of Wordpress actually wants (if they don't want buggy, out of date software with security risks). |
|
|
|
| ▲ | ibejoeb an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't know... WordPress is a pretty huge open source project and community. He also opened Pocket Casts. |
| |
| ▲ | legitster 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | If you followed his months of mad ravings, he made it clear that Wordpress is not a true open source project. He has direct control over the project via Automattic appointments in the community, everything is designed to route through his circuitous network of shell corporations and trademarks (wordpress.org is fully under his control and he personally owns the Wordpress trademark - which the "project" licenses from him). The only reason Wordpress is open source in the first place is because it's a just a fork of b2/cafelog and the original GNU license means derivative works have to be open source as well. (Lost in his moral crusade against WP Engine is the fact that he never really contributed to b2 besides just taking their code). | |
| ▲ | miguelxpn an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | He bought Pocket Casts. | | |
|
