Likes WordPress.

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…You forget the bigger picture ethics of it. It’s like when a guy keeps promising he’ll do something and then you realize you wake up one day a year or two later, “Wait a minute, I was being lied to this whole time,” and that I don’t even know if it’s about money. I’d get mad too. It’s totally fine to get mad when people disappoint you. That’s not justification for upending decades of open source licensees and the essential de facto case law we’ve established around it. This is why I chose to even weigh in on this because I like WordPress. I don’t use WordPress. I’m not a part of that community. I don’t actually have a dog in this fight. I’m biased if anything towards Matt just as a fellow BDFL. I would like to see him do well with this, but I also think there’s some principles that stake here that ring much louder. I don’t want Rails to suddenly be tainted by the fact that it’s open source and whether companies can rely on it and build businesses on it because wait, maybe one day I’m going to turn Matt and I’m going to turn Matt King and I’m going to show up with a demand ransom letter. Now screw that. We have way more to protect here. There’s way more at stake than your personal beef with someone or your perceived grievance over what you’re owed. What would you recommend? What do you think he should do, can do to walk it back to heal?…

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