Tag: open source

  • On Forking WordPress

    On Forking WordPress

    It’s been floated with the recent outburst between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, that the community should fork (aka move the OSS) WordPress to a new project, with out the drama (or so it’s thought). I’m not sure how I feel about this. It’s not going to be a small feat. When WordPress was forked

  • WordPress Is More Than Automattic and WordPress.com

    WordPress Is More Than Automattic and WordPress.com

    It’s all come to a head. The team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Tumblr.com has struck a deal with OpenAI and Midjourney to supply data from its .com and Tumblr.com users for AI learning. The reason why the .com is in bold is because we’re talking about the hosted version of WordPress and

  • Open Source vs. Close Source

    I’ve been thinking about open source lately. I’ve always been a big proponent of it, but now with Google, Facebook, Automattic and others releasing their software, hardware, and other stuff into the open source community, it’s got me thinking. Why wouldn’t you want to open source your software and hardware? First off what is open