Legal battles between Automattic and is WP Engine, has highlighted the problems with WordPress. The former CEO of Yoast (Joost de Valk) published a post to point out that the management of the “choice” of Matt Mullenweg, can have a negative impact on the entire community. That's why one approach is independent of the federuar in order to eliminate the dependence of the WordPress.org.
To break the status quo
Matt Mullenweg created WordPress.org (known simply as WordPress), by Mike Little, in 2003. He later founded Automattic, the company that owns the WordPress.com the service and navigate to the guide. The themes, plugins and other content are available for the storage of WordPress.org that WP Engine may not be qasej the most up to the final decision of the judge.
Mullenweg announced recently that, during the period of the leave of it, it will not be possible to make the cover of the new WordPress.org or send to the schedule, topics, and pictures of the new. The director-General of the Automattic went on to say that he hopes to have the time, energy, and money in order to reopen all in the new year.
The former CEO of Yoast, stressed that the decision of the Mullenweg's going to cause problems for the whole community. The essence of a person to control it all. Therefore, Joost de Valk, suggesting the establishment of a foundation for WordPress, which runs WordPress.org and with the setting of the other WordPress in the public domain.
World of independent federuara also need to be created outside of the WordPress.org. Mullenweg wrote this in a comment on the post:
I think this is the idea of the good, for you, to lead, and to do it under a name other than WordPress. There is no way to achieve all that you want, without starting from scratch, from the perspective of the brand, the brand and the people.
The director-General of the Automattic then remembered that no one may use the trademarks WordPress. You can choose to create your pirunë and storage, but the use of the trademark WordPress is not allowed. Many members of the community have criticized the decisions made in the past Mullenweg, but it would be very difficult to take control of the project from falling into the hands of his own.
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