Something similar happened with Owncloud and the result was a fork to Nextcloud that basically killed Owncloud and itās for profit associated services. Open source does not have patience for dictators.
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Yeah, I think people are already looking at or working on ways to fork WordPress. At this point, I suspect the community would flock, but thereās also been a LOT of talk about a decentralized plugin/theme repo.
Sincerely: while you may believe that Iāve seen enough corruption in the world to know how typical humanity reacts.
Some always seek to destroy, exploit or make profit from others.
If anyone in Open Source isnāt prepared for
1. more scams
2. people monetizing their work
3. Knowledge & data freely given will always be stolen & used for profiteering
Example: Years ago āsomeoneā stole pictures of me posted on Facebook ( by friends) & created a fake account. Someone finally told me I shouldnāt be posting pictures of myself online if I took my career seriously. š³ Checked it out & had to prove to FB I was me. Apparently some catfisher or something.
We already see big name accounts here being targeted & many fakes.
We arenāt doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations but there is a **lot** of work to be done.