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Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork
Image Credit: Night of the Living Dead With WP Engine & Automattic officially waging a legal war against each other, I do not expect a...
A WordPress fork is also something Automattic fears, as it was oddly mentioned in a term sheet allegedly sent to WP Engine in an attempt to settle their disagreements behind the scenes. While creating a zombie fork would enrage the open-source community, ultimately, the end users who are not fluent in geek will not care as long as their website or small business runs without disruption. WP Engine would be able to rebrand and openly mooch off of Matt Mullenweg's hard work for free, and@photomatt@mastodon.social would have an evil empire to rally the WordPress community against.
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