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Alec Kinnear Wordpress.com and Automattic have many ways of cheating: * they allow certain plugins to be considered in compliance of GPL which are not in compliance of GPL * allowing the bundling of multiple plugins into one massive JetPack, putting many individual developers out of work (free bundling this is straight out of Microsoft’s playbook btw), a tactic allowed to Automattic and Automattic only. * moving everything to “services”. There’s no reason that nearly all of JetPack requires login to Wordpress.com but it does. Then Automattic bundles and sells your data or analysis of said data on to others. Who knows what Automattic will do later with your data? They owe a lot of money to a lot of venture capitalists with very sharp teeth. * not release their own code. I.e. Automattic have lots of great code they entice and sell to their VIP customers but that code is never officially released. Those of us enabling small businesses don’t have that luxury. All in all, Matt Mullenweg’s/Automattic’s stance on Wordcamp is perfect hypocrisy. I’m glad someone is challenging Automattic and Wordpress.org.
Alec Kinnear
Wordpress.com and Automattic have many ways of cheating:
* they allow certain plugins to be considered in compliance of GPL which are not in compliance of GPL * allowing the bundling of multiple plugins into one massive JetPack, putting many individual developers out of work (free bundling this is straight out of Microsoft’s playbook btw), a tactic allowed to Automattic and Automattic only. * moving everything to “services”. There’s no reason that nearly all of JetPack requires login to Wordpress.com but it does. Then Automattic bundles and sells your data or analysis of said data on to others. Who knows what Automattic will do later with your data? They owe a lot of money to a lot of venture capitalists with very sharp teeth. * not release their own code. I.e. Automattic have lots of great code they entice and sell to their VIP customers but that code is never officially released. Those of us enabling small businesses don’t have that luxury.
All in all, Matt Mullenweg’s/Automattic’s stance on Wordcamp is perfect hypocrisy. I’m glad someone is challenging Automattic and Wordpress.org.
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