The WordPress ecosystem has been in turmoil for several weeks. However, many are critical of the battle for FOSS ideals, including David Heinemeier Hansson.
"Please don't make me cheer for a private-equity operator like Silver Lake, Matt", Ruby-on-Rails author David Heinemeier Hansson concludes his urgent appeal to Matt Mullenweg –, speaking from the heart of a large part of the WordPress community.
The main bone of contention here is the trademark rights to the "WordPress" brand. These are owned by Mullenweg's company Automattic, which also owns Tumblr, for example. Mullenwegof undermining the open source WordPress because the company hardly contributes anything to the development of WordPress.
On top of this came a forced installation of the new plugin on all sites that used ACF, which affected millions of users. Mullenweg justified the fork with the fact that WP Engine could no longer maintain the ACF plug-in – How could it? Developers of other plug-ins such as Gravity PDF and Display Post concluded that they would no longer use WordPress.org to update their plug-ins for the time being, but would host them on their own site like ACF.
Hansson justified his contribution to the debate with his concern for the open source ecosystem as a whole: "Using an open source project like WordPress as leverage in this contract dispute, and weaponizing its plugin registry, is an endangerment of an open source peace that has reigned decades ". He sees a turning point here that has not been seen since SCO v Linux around 2003 – and notes an explosion of uncertainty and concern in the OS world.
Elsewhere, the uncertainty that Hansson senses is already quite obvious: the WordPress community is seething. She therefore made her voice heard in the dedicated r/Wordpress subreddit, while the global IT coverage flushed more and more interested parties into the forum. The news of the shutdown of ACF updates coupled with initial reports of how the dispute was costing the customer base real hard: "To be honest, I didn't want to be in this position.
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