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   Mark Nottingham (mnot@techpolicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:38:39 JST Mark Nottingham

   All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:38:38 JST clacke

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     @mnot I see that there is something called FreeWP, is that what this is about?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:40:05 JST clacke

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     Found theverge.com/2024/10/12/242686… which seems to be a good entrypoint to months of articles about ongoing WordPress ecosystem issues, which seem to be more about WP Engine lawsuits and wordpress.org plugin governance than anything related to FreeWP.

     @mnot