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TBF WordPress was also created by two men and one of them was Matt. Of course it only achieved it's success through efforts of countless others, but it's not just some person. Shame, it came to this.

We had hard forks of very popular systems before, e.g. xfree86 turned into x.org, LibreOffice vs OpenOffice.org, Hudson to Jenkins and others and basically everyone switched (nearly) overnight.

Fork will likely have a much better direction structure to avoid precisely this problem, at least it seems to be the pattern.




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