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This seems to be hinting at some dispute. What is it? Is it a problem that someone is commercialising Wordpress and it's not the original authors?
by jordigh 9y ago
This seems to be hinting at some dispute. What is it? Is it a problem that someone is commercialising Wordpress and it's not the original authors?
- jdpedrie 9y agoNo dispute -- just a mistake in naming their SAAS the same as their open-source project way back when and dooming the world to confusion.
- joe5150 9y agohow much confusion is there, really? developers already know the difference and casual users/bloggers will never care.
- thanatropism 9y agoPresumably: you might want to pitch Wordpress as a CMS solution for a nonbloggy thing.
- khedoros1 9y agoAutomattic is the company that runs Wordpress.com. Its founder, CEO, and president is Matt Mullenweg. Wordpress was started by two people: Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Automattic was founded about 2 years after the Wordpress project was started. So two guys forked an older OSS project, and a couple years later, created a company, licensed the Wordpress name to that company, and created an SaaS offering bearing the same name as the open source project. I guess that the author of this page has a problem with that, and thinks that other people should have a problem with it too.