Michal Bryxí6d ago
One amendment to my #WordPress rants: With no additional, premium, addons one can NOT build a basic website that meets some minimum requirements for a decent, real world website.
The core is barely enough to get started. And then the lure of “WordPress is Open Source, therefore it’s free to use it” and the super quick breaking of such promise makes me extremely bitter.
And #Automattic could absolutely change it by making the ecosystem less shitty.
Show threadJames Just James
@MichalBryxi Why should they? Virtually 0% of users ever pay or contribute back to the upstream. It's free labour you want.
Mar 16 at 10:18pmWeb
Show threadMichal Bryxí5d ago
@purpleidea Yup. Capitalism in the coat of Libre Software(tm) at its finest. I am part of some OSS communities that genuinely make steps to make the OSS part as good as possible. There are some even in the WP space. Just not as popular.