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WP Engine, a for profit company, should be providing what their customers need, not relying on free services from a foundation for required functionality. Espe
by Zamiel_Snawley 2y ago
WP Engine, a for profit company, should be providing what their customers need, not relying on free services from a foundation for required functionality.
Especially if they have a fraught relationship with the provider of those free services.
System76 provides the PopOS repos that are based on Ubuntu. They don’t freeload.
Canonical provides the Ubuntu repos that are based on Debian. They don’t freeload.
WP Engine is freeloading, no doubt about it.
- sleepybrett 2y agoWere they ever asked to run a mirror of the plugin repo for use with their customers? If the bandwidth/infra costs to support all of WPEngines customers were so much, then they must have, right? If they were asked and refused that's certainly one thing. If they were never asked, and then when they refused the demands for money.. then it looks like matt was just looking for a wrench to hit them with and this one came to mind.
- timeon 2y ago> Were they ever asked to run a mirror of the plugin repo for use with their customers? No need to ask someone with common sense who is already doing it.
- FireBeyond 2y ago> Canonical provides the Ubuntu repos that are based on Debian. They don’t freeload. At least for Ubuntu, the packages they distribute generally don't have the same checksum as Debian, so they're not the same packages (at least as binaries). Also, "wordpress.org" is hard-coded as the plugin repo source all over WordPress.
- zem 2y agoI'm pretty sure automattic, a for-profit company, uses the free plugin hosting service from wordpress.org too.
- nasmorn 2y agoIt is like Matz founding a Heroku competitor and disabling ruby gems just for them. How is that not a dick move. It basically proves that Wordpress.org is not an independent foundation but Matt’s plaything.