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Mudslinging over Wordpress – Employees flee (www.heise.de)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A war has been raging in the WordPress ecosystem for the past two weeks. In a latest development, employees are leaving the feisty WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who is dividing the WordPress community. An eighth of his own staff do not seem to share his position. It's about demands in the millions, blackmail, "nuclear options" and, in a very big way, defending the future of open source against profit-oriented corporate giants.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I suspect we'll end up seeing a hard fork that's entirely community-driven rather than owned by a company. It's happened before - for example, Libreoffice was forked from OpenOffice .org when Sun Microsystems owned it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

God, I hope so. WP needs to shift focus away from Gutenberg and fix the horrendous backend. It desperately needs an ORM and a sane router.