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At this point, it's not even about the action against WPEngine anymore. Automattic/Wordpress hijacked ACF, one of the most popular community plugin, and then th
by legitster 2y ago
At this point, it's not even about the action against WPEngine anymore. Automattic/Wordpress hijacked ACF, one of the most popular community plugin, and then threatened other independent plugin creators. So Matt's willingness to continue escalating makes me too nervous to build anything new right now.
If you self-host Wordpress, and not rely on the built-in plugin library, you are probably safe. But now you are apparently responsible to do your due diligence to make sure any service you use is either a) is safely independent of WordPress's services or b) paying Automattic/WordPress royalties.
- daitangio 2y agoI am planning to move to Hugo for the rendering part, because WordPress is becoming a "wobbly" ecosystem in my humble opinion. If the business around WordPress become fragile or too much exposed to backfire from Wordpress.com, a lot of company will see little incentive to proceed on this direction. A lot of themes/plugin could start moving away. It is just a possible outcome but it is becoming a bit real every day passes without a clean solution of this litigation.