keikobadthebad

Bro, you did read the article you are commenting on, right?

Reading it I'm not sure if this is just a unilateral communist-style purge or an actual fork launch (or both). Here's hoping the fork gets off the ground and removes most of the pressure creating this nastiness that isn't helping anyone.

Just pointing out with gpl forks, if egos will allow it, code can be shared both ways. That's much easier if bridges are still standing.

The guy is refusing to spend money on what you think is in "the [best] interests of wordpress users", presumably that is what you think is in your interests, and you're complaining about that.

It's a gpl project, if the people complaining about how it is maintained care, they are granted the right to step up and do something about it. For example fork it, either wholesale or a light version with things you don't like stripped.

Collectively, users have these rights. I don't think they have any right to expect the guys doing to work to do it for them, or even give the time of day to some leech-only "community" that shows no gratitude or useful contribution, just demands and entitlement, and doing as much as possible to blacken the name of the guy producing the work they are relying on.

Article itself actually hates rto, and the author found > 60% - that's 3 days a week - untenable.

No argumentation, just downvotes... as I said, seems a lot of people bringing out their worst.

Really seems a lot of people bringing out their worst.

If you want to fork it, fork it, leave the wordpress name and trademarks, do your better thing. Just drop anything that belongs to someone else who has no reason to join this effort.

Is it really a better thing to have a 'board' to direct FOSS activity? Yeah? You've thought that through...?

It sounds like with the surprise ruling to force service provision to wpe, and this response, there's little desire to be the free provider of dev infrastructure on the part of wp any more. Which is understandable if you're being compelled to do it.

AIUI the compulsion is just to leave things as they were while the case proceeds, I hope the judge has better criteria for understanding the situation than brought out at the summary judgement.

If only the torygraph could put the sackcloth and ashes down long enough to use data to contrast the same metrics under tory and labour.

... why write on HN about it? What do you think the people here can or will do? There's an endless trickle of these kind of posts, I have never seen one with a resolution that satisfied the OP.

The only way in this situation (which sounds like private capital took it over to run it into the ground taking the last profits) would seem to be 'up your game' by moving to a new company.

Then 'the system' is not your problem.

The article seems to gloss that WP is made available under GPL2+. What's the point attacking Automattic for making money when they fund the core development and make it available to everyone? It's even still available to WP Engine, the lawsuit is about trademark usage, not copyright.

From the perspective of GPL distribution rights, what exactly from Automattic 'scares [your] contributors away'?

The article says you stopped contributing because you weren't getting paid and it's demotivating to see Automattic were making money and yourself not. That's certainly understandable, but it's the same as, eg, linux kernel work. Huge numbers of devs are well-paid to contribute by companies and other devs not. You do have the option to try to get a gig being paid, as well as the option to stop or continue unpaid contribution. But it's not really valid to blame either project if some can make money from it.