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Matt has chosen to keep Wordpress Opensource, and thanks to him for that. This allowed companies like WPEngine to exist... and focus their resources like marke
by PeterZaitsev 2y ago
Matt has chosen to keep Wordpress Opensource, and thanks to him for that.
This allowed companies like WPEngine to exist... and focus their resources like marketing and maintaining their internal "fork" rather than contributing to core Open Source Project... and this might be one of the reasons they are getting some good success.
Generally trademark is what should offer some protection here and I think this is where Open Source landscape was not tested well.
WP Engine claims on their front page they are "Most Trusted Wordpress Hosting" which arguably makes folks to assume they host full featured Open Source Wordpress, which per Matt's article does not seem to be the case.
- Kye 2y agoHe didn't choose to keep it open source. He has no choice unless he tracks down all the contributors back to B2 and gets them to assign copyright. This would be the most controversial thing he's done so far and likely lead to a fork. That's the point of a license like GPL.