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It is Open Source, right? It means everyone is free to change the source. Oh wait, but that’s hard. Much easier to just point your control panel at the original
by elwebmaster 2y ago
It is Open Source, right? It means everyone is free to change the source. Oh wait, but that’s hard. Much easier to just point your control panel at the original distribution and start the money printing machine while someone else is footing the bill.
- chuckadams 2y agoThere is no "control panel" to point. api.wordpress.org is hardwired into the source, and the implementation of that API is not open source. Matt has personally informed us that he is perfectly happy with this setup and has no plans to change it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41675671#41678014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41675671#41678014 So it's WPE's fault for not forking the ecosystem earlier?