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Is that supposed to make this blatantly anti-competitive behaviour okay?
by RealStickman_ 2y ago
Is that supposed to make this blatantly anti-competitive behaviour okay?
- cies 2y agoSorry? Their service is... their service! They can extend of refuse service to whom they want. Automattic is releasing source code, which, in my book, is being super friendly to competitors. It seems to me you are holding the good guys (that release under FLOSS licenses) to a higher standard than any other company that keeps the source to them selves.
- n3storm 2y agoWordPress.org is not "apparently" Automattic
- cies 2y agoThat happens everywhere. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*OVEEYB4HsCIHQLcUuDf3Hw.png https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*OVEEYB4H...
- ValentineC 2y ago> Automattic is releasing source code, which, in my book, is being super friendly to competitors. WordPress is a GPL project.
- cies 2y agothe code is GPL. services (like the plugin registry, but there are many more) cannot be GPL. they are served by someone and that someone pays for hosting/bandwidth/etc and that someone is free to stop providing that service (to one party or all together).
- consteval 2y agoHow is it anti-competitive to stop people smashing your APIs? That shit costs money man. It's not free to provide web resources to hundreds of thousands of people. WPE is essentially DDOSing WP for free. Obviously that shit doesn't fly. Either pay up or get your own server and host your own shit.
- cies 2y agoI dont know why you are down voted. I feel exactly the same about it.
- consteval 2y agoMost likely my tone, but I'm frustrated because I don't even understand how this is a conversation. If any one of us was hosting a FREE service and some corporation came around and hit us with hundreds of thousands of requests, we too would demand money or ban them. Any one of us. So I really, truly, don't understand why we're all sitting here having this conversation.