I suspect, without knowing anything, that WPEngine's lawsuit will put wordpress in a position where they can't do anything to suppress alternative implementations of their infrastructure.
I'm suspicious of the Linux Foundation, and am pretty much on the side of wordpress in the big dispute, but I'd switch to a distributed solution in a second if it worked 75% as well. The difference in management risk between a) dealing with a single CEO of a single organization who behaves that way in public, and b) a distributed Linux Foundation sponsored apt-style plugin repository, is huge.
If a lot of people are like me, that means wordpress is doomed. People don't want to fork because they don't want to pay for wordpress development. Taking away revenue from wordpress is going to stagnate it (even more, and it's a dinosaur anyway.) The parasites will have killed the host.
> People don't want to fork because they don't want to pay for wordpress development.
People don't fork because they wouldn't stay compatible with core, and thus not keep compatibility with most of the plugins if they do anything meaningful to improve the code (and if you don't, why would you fork?)
core and plugins are handcuffed together: plugins are nothing without core, but core is just a horrible mess of spaghetti code with no value without plugins. yet core can't really be improved without abandoning a bunch of plugins (on which they depend for being viable as a CMS).
So far, core seems to err on the side of plugin authors (unless they're deemed competitors to .com), i.e. rug-pulls and replacing the plugin with malware-adjacent "new functionality" is totally fine for .org's plugin masters.
> am pretty much on the side of wordpress in the big dispute
This essentially discredits you completely... A judge already granted an injunction against Matt to revert all his nonsense, which only really happens when the case is overwhelmingly strong against them.
> The parasites will have killed the host.
The problem is that the "host" IS the parasite in this case.
I'm suspicious of the Linux Foundation, and am pretty much on the side of wordpress in the big dispute, but I'd switch to a distributed solution in a second if it worked 75% as well. The difference in management risk between a) dealing with a single CEO of a single organization who behaves that way in public, and b) a distributed Linux Foundation sponsored apt-style plugin repository, is huge.
If a lot of people are like me, that means wordpress is doomed. People don't want to fork because they don't want to pay for wordpress development. Taking away revenue from wordpress is going to stagnate it (even more, and it's a dinosaur anyway.) The parasites will have killed the host.