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> “WP Engine is free to offer their hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code to their customers, and they can experience WordPress as WP Engine
by akira2501 2y ago
> “WP Engine is free to offer their hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code to their customers, and they can experience WordPress as WP Engine envisions it,
That just reads like petty tyrantry to me. Stop me if I'm wrong here but isn't wordpress itself just some PHP on top of a database? The value that he's gatekeeping here is actually the contributions of _other open source developers_?
Stop me if I'm wrong but isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?
- maebert 2y agoTechnically, Facebook is just some PHP on top of a database :)
- akira2501 2y agoYep. And the value they have is _your data_. It'd be a similar situation if Zuckerberg was playing "fealty games" with who could and couldn't get an API key.
- jemmyw 2y agoBy his logic, WordPress itself, being a fork, is bastardized version of the original.