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by stogot 637 days ago
You’re conflating two posts. He didn’t change any terms until they took legal action against them. If my neighbor came over to my house everyday and made a sand which, then sued me… then I’d lock the front door

Though I don’t know how much merit his original post had.
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sureIy 637 days ago
No this is more like city hall saying “you can’t build here” 10 years after watching you build. Too late, the house was built and you implicitly gave permission for it.
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tomachi 629 days ago
If WP engine has taken legal action against Matt, that is extremely disrespectful, and not gracious; he even tried so do it softly via the dashboard;

"WP Engine accused Automattic and Mullenweg of not keeping their promises to run WordPress open-source projects without any constraints and giving developers the freedom to build, run, modify and redistribute the software."

What promises? People make and release software using the GPL "copyleft" license because they enjoy doing so. Everybody is free to cease doing that if they no longer enjoy it. If it no longer brings them joy. And if it is costing measurable quants of money for the non-profit .org to provide back-end services to the $100 billion dollar corporation who is profiting from using the core plugins and themes etc.

Perhaps 8% of gross is a bit much, but I don't see them counter offering 1% and a way to work up over time. They were purchased for $250 million in 2018 so they have plenty o' cash. Bad faith wpengine for trying to strip-mine WordPress like that.

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