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by itsdrewmiller 627 days ago
This position rests pretty heavily on the idea that Wordpress.com is subsidizing wordpress.org, which is a charitable foundation that accepts donations. Do you have any specific reason to believe this is true? I don’t recall seeing that complaint directly here but maybe I missed it.
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brycelarkin 627 days ago
A quick look at the Automattic site (https://automattic.com/about/) says they dedicate 5% of company time to WP open source.

Their GitHub has over 1000 repos, likely all WP related. https://github.com/Automattic

I don’t doubt Automattic is not putting in their fair share into the WP community.

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itsdrewmiller 625 days ago
When I say subsidizing I mean financially subsidizing (i.e. paying for wordpress.org bandwidth costs) - that's the only way the comment makes sense, and I am not inclined to believe it to be true without evidence. As the other response notes though wordpress.org isn't even the foundation apparently, so is wordpress.com subsidizing wordpress.org? Have they asked WPEngine to cover their costs?
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FireBeyond 627 days ago
> Wordpress.com is subsidizing wordpress.org, which is a charitable foundation that accepts donations

Nope. There goes Matt, muddying the waters. Contrary to many people (including myself's belief) wp.org is very explicitly, in his words, NOT the Foundation, just a benevolent gift of his to the community. You could be excused, given all the links to donate to the Foundation and accompanying text, or the fact that it lives on the Foundation's ASN, though.

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