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by padiyar83 511 days ago
> How would you react if someone demanded you pay them 8% of your annual revenue? Yeah. Like that.

If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I would pay it. Seems these days, doing what's honourable is not that simple.
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ceejayoz 510 days ago
> If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I would pay it.

Automattic is not contributing 8% of their revenue to PHP. (Nor MySQL, Apache, or all the other bits of free labor they're similarly built off.)

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theamk 511 days ago
You are making it sound like it was a single person who could not pay their bills.

It was not. That's a $7.5 billon company threatening $1 billion company over totally frivolous reasons.

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