• irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t get the logic of cutting off contributions of any kind unless they were actively sabotaging the projector something. Seems like that just makes the fork basically a guarantee. And in open source, a fork that discourages community is always going to be at a disadvantage.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    remember when matt publically attacked a trans woman on twitter because she called him out about his transphobia

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      1 day ago

      Please don’t, this is the best entertainment I’ve had in months!

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      It’s more likely that a fork becomes dominant, making him irrelevant. That’s almost the same thing.

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    So does anyone know if the fork has been implemented or not?

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    I think he misunderstands the label/title “benevolent dictator for life” that can get assigned to people on some really popular open source projects.

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        Humans can’t do then benevolent part for very long.

        You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we’re just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.

        (Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn’t help, and boy howdy.)

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      The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

      • Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
      • Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
      • Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
      • Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
      • Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.
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    Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn’t it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

    Sad part is that he’s likely to get away with this pne since it’s not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

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      This will not kill Wordpress outright but it might very well significantly factor into the decision of every future person deciding if they should write a plugin to support Wordpress or some alternative CMS or if they should host a Wordpress instance or something else, especially companies offering commercial hosting.

      It might even lead to a project or two that will eventually replace Wordpress in its dominant position.

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          It’s not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.

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            19 hours ago

            I program a lot with both wp and laravel over the last years. Not sure what I want to say other than they are cool but different vibes and skills.

            Wp can be used out in the box by almost anyone who is web savvy; laravel is always needing some assembly, at the least, so the entry there is programming or deep pockets to pay that.

            Wp community and sites is probably a thousand times larger than laravel?