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All of your arguments go out the window when the foundation disappears. That’s what is happening now. Wordpress isn’t good in and of itself. It’s good due to th

• bigiain 2y ago
  Yes. and that's sad. Very sad. Having said that, it seems that many people (me included) have been assuming things about "the WordPress Foundation" that are not true. It apparently is _not_ the steward of the wordpress.org repository of 3rd party themes and plugins the "community of developers" painstakingly created, and that have made WordPress "good" for so many different people. As far as I can tell, "the foundation" does whatever it does on a tax filing declared budget of around $22,000 (so, not much?) - and it exists mostly as a non profit "owner" of some trademarks that it immediately exclusively and irrevocably licensed for commercial use back to Automattic the same day they got given them. I'm pretty sure "the foundation" could have disappeared anytime in the last decade, or could remain to exist for another decade or two to come, and either way wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference. It's not the foundation that's gone, it's the trust in the Wordpress core development leadership, the trust in the wordpress.org theme/plugin leadership, and the trust that the WordPress trademark is safe to use in perfectly normal and legal ways without the treat of being extorted if you start making too much money.