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I fully agree. GD has been buying out contributing software vendors like crazy recently (Kadence, WP Curve, Pagely, ManageWP amongst others - 17 companies in to
by radiojasper 4y ago
I fully agree. GD has been buying out contributing software vendors like crazy recently (Kadence, WP Curve, Pagely, ManageWP amongst others - 17 companies in total and counting), without giving anything back to the platform and its community. They're just parasiting off of free software and have enough money to buy out as many companies as needed to become a monopoly. Google's auto-suggest question stuff in their SERPs are already showcasing this nonsense [0]
And is GD alone? No, the parasites over at LiquidWeb are doing the exact same thing. The recently bought out Modern Tribe, the creators of The Events Calendar, StellarWP, iThemes, GiveWP, Restrict Content Pro, Iconic...
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- kordlessagain 4y agoI don’t agree. Faulting a company for using the code while the license allows it is divisive. So is using the word parasite. If you don’t like it, change the license.
- taubek 4y agoCan you give some link for those buying outs? When did they acquire Kadence? There was a lot of buying/takeovers in WP eco system during last few years....
- radiojasper 4y agoKadence joined iThemes and then iThemes got bought out: https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/kadence-wp-is-joining-ithemes/ https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/kadence-wp-is-joining-ithemes...
- taubek 4y agoThanks! I really is hard to keep track of all of those changes. Latest that I've seen is that someone new has bought the company that has bought AFC some time ago.
- radiojasper 4y agoIt is! WP Tavern is your friend for such updates, they're usually pretty on top of things. https://wptavern.com/ https://wptavern.com/