• WormFood@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the same organisation makes both, they just release a subset of their work as the open source version of WordPress. it’s a pretty standard business model for this kind of software

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      1 year ago

      That is incorrect. Automattic donates some work to the open-source project, but they are in no way the same thing.

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        1 year ago

        Man this is like saying proton isn’t made by Valve… Matt Mullenweg was one of the cocreators of Wordpress and went on to start Automattic which is a pun on his name. He’s literally got (or at least had) the title of lead developer in the Worldpress Foundation and he’s CEO of Automattic.

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        Donates some work? They open source the platform. You can pay for hosting at .com… honestly asking, what are you even mad about?