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Rick Rottman Why? Isn’t that the best place to resolve legal disputes? Personally, I would have preferred if Matt had called the CEO of Wix to voice his concerns. Don’t these guys have each other’s phone numbers? If not, they should. Instead, Matt went with the Friday blog post calling Wix a rip-off of WordPress (an insult to WordPress IMHO) and accusing the person who made the app a code thief. Less then 24 hours later, the engineer responsible for creating the Wix mobile app publishes a response on Medium, which many people then publicly criticized for not addressing all the issues. Yeah, maybe it didn’t, but when you’re accused of being a thief by someone as massively popular as Matt Mullenweg, I imagine the desire to defend yourself as quickly as possible is quite high. Whatever happens with this issue, once again I believe it points out that people just don’t understand GPL very well. I consider myself one of those people. Just an example, if I understand GPL, I would be within my rights to take a WooCommerce payment gateway extension that Automattic sells for $79 and give it away for free. Maybe I just don’t understand the GPL, because this seems like a jerk move. Even though I’ve read about GPL, I prefer just to think I don’t get it. The idea of just giving away code that other people pay for seems dishonest.
Rick Rottman
Why? Isn’t that the best place to resolve legal disputes?
Personally, I would have preferred if Matt had called the CEO of Wix to voice his concerns. Don’t these guys have each other’s phone numbers? If not, they should.
Instead, Matt went with the Friday blog post calling Wix a rip-off of WordPress (an insult to WordPress IMHO) and accusing the person who made the app a code thief. Less then 24 hours later, the engineer responsible for creating the Wix mobile app publishes a response on Medium, which many people then publicly criticized for not addressing all the issues.
Yeah, maybe it didn’t, but when you’re accused of being a thief by someone as massively popular as Matt Mullenweg, I imagine the desire to defend yourself as quickly as possible is quite high.
Whatever happens with this issue, once again I believe it points out that people just don’t understand GPL very well. I consider myself one of those people.
Just an example, if I understand GPL, I would be within my rights to take a WooCommerce payment gateway extension that Automattic sells for $79 and give it away for free. Maybe I just don’t understand the GPL, because this seems like a jerk move.
Even though I’ve read about GPL, I prefer just to think I don’t get it. The idea of just giving away code that other people pay for seems dishonest.
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