Comment by ivanmontillam
20 hours ago
As GP said:
> Long story short: MS isn't a saint. They are a business. And they have behaved relatively nice for so long that some young adults don't know any other side of MS now.
They are a business. You seem to misunderstand that businesses cannot behave like charities.
Being a business implies being for-profit.
Nobody said open source had to be free as in free beer, it just had to be free as in freedom.
It's their prerogative to make the plugins marketplace to alternative editors or not. Servers cost money. It's a business.
Does Matt Mullenweg has to let WPEngine sap server resources? Arguably not; and this opinion comes from a guy (me) that strongly dislikes WordPress (and by extension: Matt and Automattic).
Man, more than two decades of open source and people still don't understand what free as I'm freedom means. It's depressing.
I am responding to this:
> I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.
Matt Mullenweg did nothing wrong