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> He could have had basically the entire internet on his side just by laying out the facts: "They use our product for free, generate hundreds of millions in revenue, and don't contribute back. It's just not fair. Please contribute more."

I remember reading exactly this statement about corps generating profits on a open source thousand of times. Usually with zero effect.




Zero effect would have been strictly better than what we're seeing here.


At this point if Matt insists on his corporate orobouros of fiefdoms all controlled by him, the only solution to the problem is forking Wordpress, to rid him of any control.




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