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by dangrossman 2y ago
They're listed as a sponsor on the PHP Foundation website.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
There's a "no forking" clause in the term sheet Automattic sent to WP Engine: https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/term-sheet... IANAL, but the WordPress license (GPLv2) says
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Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf](wpengine.com)
574 points by dangrossman 2y ago|626 comments
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by dangrossman 2y ago
If Matt tells you what I just told you, will you believe Matt? Here it is on his website, wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/wp-engine/
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by dangrossman 2y ago
There are approximately 330,000 web hosting companies not listed there, including a very long list that are larger than WPE, generate an order of magnitude more revenue than WPE, and host more WP installs than WPE. WP Engine has contributed
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Why can 40%+ of the web leech on it while adding zero value except the <1% hosted by WPE?
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by dangrossman 2y ago
If Matt thinks he has a legitimate trademark claim, file it in court, don't play games with 3.5 million WordPress end-users that are now cut off from security updates -- including all users of the ACF plugin that aren't even WPE c
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by dangrossman 2y ago
fyi, there is a difference between casual communication style and a mistake or gap in one's knowledge
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Just 478 million websites representing 43% of the web.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Three months -- but this was 2012, and that success is a lot harder to replicate today.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I ran ads on Google and Facebook for years, $1000/month was my budget most of the time. I reached a peak of around $45K/month in subscription revenue from this for my app Improvely.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Cloudflare already isolated X on their network so that Brazil can block just X again.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
"Good money" to a company with $13B revenue a year is a lot different than "good money" to a solo developer. If you can pick up six figures a year in revenue and keep things small enough to run solo, it's a good bus
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I don't get 120fps on non-minimal settings with a PlayStation or Xbox, yet 150+ million people do all their gaming on those consoles (including almost half of Overwatch's player base according to some polls). That's not the t
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by dangrossman 2y ago
$200 on eBay will get you a used laptop with a Core i7, 16GB RAM and SSD; essentially the same specs as my year-old $1000+ laptop, other than having a newer generation CPU. It'll play many brand new games at 720p or better and acceptab
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Backwards compatibility is more important than consistent naming conventions. 43.5% of all sites on the web run on WordPress (as of August 2024), and they have 20+ years of plugins and themes installed, many of which talk directly to the da
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I'm also a long-time (8+ year) Sendgrid user, and my accounts (one main account, 3 sub-accounts) were not put under review. I haven't needed customer support any time recently so I can't speak to that.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
The most recent review on Google, which includes interior photos of the open store, is just 4 days old.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
> John Schulman, one of the co-founders of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has left the ChatGPT maker for rival Anthropic, he said in a post on social media platform X late Monday. > OpenAI's President and co-founder Greg
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Berkshire's insurance float value is on the same order of magnitude. They underwrite both property insurance and cyber insurance. That's a scary business to be in right now. Hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornados, cyber attacks have
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by dangrossman 2y ago
The fictional automated business may cost tens of billions of dollars to build. That means almost no one, not literally anyone, can create it. If a small group of giant conglomerates are the only companies wealthy enough to build these auto
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by dangrossman 2y ago
At $1.3 million per employee in payroll expenses, it seems like much of the profits are being distributed to the employees that work there.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Those are from the 1990s.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I don't understand how you can say that. If McDonalds opened a new restaurant next door to each of their highest grossing existing restaurants, and charged lower prices there, do you think that would be completely fair to the franchise
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by dangrossman 2y ago
You've got it backwards. Buying a Rivian or Tesla means you're locked in to servicing the car with the company you bought it from, and have nowhere else to turn if you're unhappy with that service. Buying a car from a make wi
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by dangrossman 2y ago
> Dealerships should not exist and only exist due to terrible laws making it illegal for most automakers to sell direct. Dealerships exist because the automakers wanted them, and those laws exist due to the automakers' foul play. Au
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Why would a consumer that isn't part of a business need to generate UI designs?
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by dangrossman 2y ago
It's a great feeling, right? It's been a decade plus since I've written any popular open source code, but I still run into my old work on occasion. I found a date picker I made being used on the NHTSA website, a hotel booking
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I know the guy that sells a tumbler level for the xTool P2 to do full wraps. He does some online classes too. He found his customers by being active in the P2's Facebook groups from when the product first launched. I don't see any
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I bought some production equipment (laser cutters, printers, heat presses, etc) and manufacture physical goods out of my home. Feels closer to coding when I first fell in love with it -- making the whole product from start to finish, sellin

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