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by startages 630 days ago
WordPress Foundation is paying for the servers, so I guess they have the right to choose who gets access or not. Using the resources as a single person or a small business is not the same as using them from a hosting company with millions of websites. Other hosting companies contribute to the foundation which keeps the service running. If WPEngine isn't contributing anything, it would be unfair for other contributors/sponsors. Especially that they are making a large amount of money from it.
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sureIy 630 days ago
How would you feel if WordPress.org suddenly decided to lock ALL installations across the world and ask for $800/site/month to access it?

Is it their right? Sure. I don’t think you’d be here defending them though.

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seb1204 629 days ago
As so often I think it would be beneficial for the conversation to provide some more context. Single user install generated load VS WP generated load on the infrastructure of WordPress.org
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ValentineC 629 days ago
What I find fascinating is that people in this thread and elsewhere are saying that Matt funds the WordPress.org servers personally.
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appendix-rock 630 days ago
You’re moving the goalposts. We aren’t talking about who has a right to what. We’re talking about what is and what isn’t a deranged dick move.
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consteval 629 days ago
It's not at all a dick move to block IPs that essentially DDOS your free services.

Google, Amazon, you name it do this infinite times a day with crawlers.

If you build a business on taking resources from some public source, on a large scale, you could very well be out of a business at any time. This has been the case for a long, long time. And nobody seems to take issue with it.

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