On Forking WordPress

It's been floated with the recent outburst between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, that the community should fork (aka move the OSS) WordPress to a new project, with out the drama (or so it's thought).

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's not going to be a small feat. When WordPress was forked from B2/cafeblog back on 2004 (correct me if that year is wrong). The Web was smaller, and WordPress didn't power 40%+ of the Websites on the Web.

I think we need to separate […]

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