Non-profit project that gives away expensive stuff to multibillion/trillion dollar companies, for free? I didn't even know that this is a thing. Where can I donate my kidneys?
Well, to be clear, WordPress.com didn’t exist 20 years ago, nor did Automattic. So this domain wasn’t given away to a billion dollar company, it was given to an open source developer to build a platform to bring more users and exposure to open source software. Which absolutely happened.
We’re talking 20 years ago, which is a lot earlier in the story of open source software! All the scandals over the past several years related to companies profiteering off open source software hadn’t happened yet.
We’re talking 20 years ago, which is a lot earlier in the story of open source software! All the scandals over the past several years related to companies profiteering off open source software hadn’t happened yet.