Replying to Avatar yunginter.net

I imagine the answers would be,

wp.org needed to be a charitable foundation, and the code separate, for it to have gotten the wide spread adoption that it saw and for hosting companies to be so willing to offer up one click instal and larger publisher adoption ect. They would of seen a direct relationship to a for profit as a threat

or

we haphazardly juggled trademarks and constantly had to have a team to seek funding for the foundation, with a properly crafted mission statement to hold us accountable that might of been preferable

I did find him on bluesky although looks like he hasn’t been on in a week so probably making an ass of my self by speculating here
Avatar
yunginter.net 2y ago

I’m not sure if DuckDuckGo would look at a hyperlink protocol that had .ggl (google) in its lexicon and set out to compete, even if it was a completely open protocol, in the same way. Probably would look for a radically unaffiliated protocol or start out by creating one.

If Bing or DuckDuckGo were to launch a social indexing product, or twitter or meta looked to integrate and noticed that they would be indexing .Bsky.post links, that the name of the competing for-profit client/indexer/host was in the lexicon, they might then look to the the corporate structure, which is where a foundation(al) split would sooth any worry about the lexicon or name, and find something new a different. This could lead them to consider using Nostr instead, which is radically unaffiliated, similar thinking as to why David Markus is full on ln network now.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

No replies yet.