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Yeah when I go to WPEngine site it feels like they copy-pasted it.

This is the thing about open source is MOST people do not contribute anything. And we’re seeing this trend with the whole Continue.dev situation too. Copy-paste, rebrand, make some money.

I think everyone needs to consider what the O.G. Wordpress team has created—and how many hours of blood, sweat, and tears went in. And then some folks just copy-paste and siphon out their business.

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Fun fact. Matt Mullenweg himself was a seed investor in WPEngine. He has either sold since then, or his share has been diluted to the point of being meaningless.

The reality is that he had no problem with WPEngine until recently. Just last year he spoke at their conference.

They explicitly allowed it. If you don't want to be taken advantage of, put it in the license. It's honestly hard to feel sympathy for companies that release a product under a what some meme circles have called a "cuck license"¹ and then complain when some other entity adheres to the license.

1: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc...

(GPL would not help in this specific case — I believe the project is already under the GPL — but his general point still stands.)

Yeah I agree—they should use the AGPL as that’s the one that protects on the server side.

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