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by ryan-allen 3517 days ago
Very true. Automattic have heaps of closed source code to run their proprietary platform and they don't release that to the public, yet they demand it from others.

Mullenweg has a history of "do as I say not as I do" in regards to GPL, and to my mind it's a bit of sour grapes on his part.
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league 3517 days ago
Distribution changes this. They do not distribute WordPress.com for download. They do distribute WordPress.org
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mpcod 3517 days ago
Automattic doesn't do anything with WordPress.org but contribute to it.

WordPress.com uses a lot of WordPress.org code and other open source code (that they wrote and distribute), but I imagine there is a lot of (probably stupidly ugly) back end stuff they have not released that helps them run a service as huge as WordPress.com ... but they aren't distributing it so... if they did, I am sure they would do so under GPL.

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