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On one side is a big corporation that doesn’t give back very much to the open source community on which it profits. On the other side is an executive who will d
by labster 2y ago
On one side is a big corporation that doesn’t give back very much to the open source community on which it profits. On the other side is an executive who will do everything in his power end the aforementioned abuse, including his nonprofit directing money into his for-profit, and even destroying the entire software ecosystem and individual developer’s livelihoods.
Consensus seems to be that the Matt/Automattic is worse than WP Engine, if only through stupidity and hubris.
- gamblor956 2y agoWPE maintains a number of community plug-ins and until last week was the single biggest corporate sponsor of WordPress community events.
- salesynerd 2y agoNot siding with either Matt or WPE, but I think just sponsoring community events should not be giving back enough. If I remember clearly, companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. spend substantial (to the community) monetary and non-monetary support to many open-source projects, in addition to sponsoring community events.