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Wix Uses WordPress Code, Violates GPL

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Shayda Torabi

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Community, Featured

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November 1, 2016

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Microsoft vs. Apple, Oracle vs. Salesforce, Comcast vs. Verizon — rivalry is just a natural part of growth in the tech world. The recent controversy between WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Wix co-founder Avashai Abrahami is no exception. On Friday, Mullenweg alleged that the Wix application is built using stolen code, highlighting the similarities between the newly released mobile app and the WordPress editor. “This explicitly contravenes the GPL, which requires attribution and a corresponding GPL license on whatever you release publicly built on top of GPL code,” Mullenweg said. Since the initial post, there has been follow up directly from Abrahami […]

WordPress Community Shares Thoughts on Microsoft’s Open Source News

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Marie Dodson

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Featured, News

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November 13, 2014

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On Wednesday, S. Somasegar, the corporate vice president of the developer division at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft is opening up access to .NET and Visual Studio — a move that will lead to universal access of Microsoft’s industry-leading platform and tools. In the coming months Microsoft plans to continue to open source the full server-side .NET Core Stack: ASP.NET 5 down, the Core Runtime, and Framework, Somasegar said. In addition, the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. As of Wednesday, several components of the core .NET framework have been released and […]

On the Versatility of WordPress

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Jonathan John

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Community, Featured

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September 26, 2014

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11 years, 4 months ago, the world changed for the better. How, you ask? WordPress was created, published, and released to the public. It spread like wildfire and had millions of users within a couple years. And as the user base of ol’ WordPress continued to grow, so did the capabilities of the platform. What started out as a simple software to facilitate blogging has evolved into an extremely versatile content management system, which can be used to power just about any type of website. Today, WordPress is super flexible and can be adjusted every which way to suit your personal website needs. Evolution […]

How Open Source Has Driven the WordPress Revolution

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Jonathan John

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September 23, 2014

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Open source. These two words are the driving force behind the evolution of the CMS that we all know and love, WordPress. Without open source, I highly doubt that WordPress would have gained even half the popularity it boasts of today. What Is Open Source? Open source software, if you want the Wikipedia definition, is software “for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed or modified.” In layman’s terms, this essentially means that WordPress is free for all and you can do anything with it, which includes alteration of the code and customization of […]

Open-source Announcements Keep Coming In

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Marie Dodson

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Featured, News

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June 19, 2014

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Technology companies are embracing open source as a commercial advantage, as demonstrated by 2 of the announcements made at Gigaom Structure in San Francisco. Back in January 2013, Rackspace announced its decision to design and build its own servers. And following in the steps Facebook and Google, Rackspace made plans to do so using the Open Compute project format. Today, Rackspace announced its new OnMetal servers, which will be soon be available in the Rackspace Northern Virginia region. The new single-tentant servers are geared towards addressing the noisy neighbor problem that occurs in multitenant servers, according to Jonathan Vanian. Multitenant servers […]

Tesla Embraces Open Source

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Kirby Prickett

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June 16, 2014

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Can open source help electric cars gain widespread acceptance and market share? Tesla CEO Elon Musk is betting on it. In a blog post last Thursday, Musk announced that all of Tesla’s patents had been taken down from the wall, “in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.” Musk promised to share the company’s entire patent portfolio, and not initiate patent lawsuits, as long as competitors use Tesla’s technology in “good faith.” Musk is hoping that by opening up the electric car market, more carmakers will produce electric vehicles, and the technology will gain […]

SHARE: Catalyzing the Sharing Economy Kicked off Today

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Marie Dodson

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Community, Events

Published

May 13, 2014

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The concept of sharing is central to the WordPress community. In fact, it’s a fundamental principle behind “open-source,” and it has shaped WordPress into what it is today. But the capabilities of sharing extend far beyond the confines of open-source software development. Sharing your ideas, your house, or even your pen can ignite change. It can cultivate community and build trust. Today, there is a name for this sharing phenomenon. It’s called the sharing economy, and it’s a movement based entirely off the notion of sharing . . . everything. In a recent article, Nancy Scola highlighted the increasing popularity of the sharing economy: . […]

wpForGlass: The First WordPress Plugin for Google Glass

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Jay Hoffmann

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Featured, News

Published

December 10, 2013

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Google Glass is one of the trendiest technologies out there right now, but it’s hard to tell who it’s actually useful for. One group that stands out is publishers and journalists who can use Glass to chronicle their stories through rich, on-the-fly media experiences. And as the world’s largest publishing platform, it was only a matter of time before WordPress and Google Glass hooked up. Now, thanks to Weber Shandwick, that time has come. wpForGlass is the first plugin that allows you to post to your WordPress blog from Google Glass. The workflow for wpForGlass is fairly simple and it’s […]

The History of the Democratization of Publishing

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Kirby Prickett

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Community

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October 16, 2013

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We’ve heard it many times before—WordPress is democratizing publishing. But have you ever stopped to think about what that really means? Definition of Democratization Democracy can be defined as: A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. To put it more simply, democratic governments answer to their citizens. Through voting, people frame the institutions that govern them. But democracy doesn’t only apply to governments, it can occur in groups or organizations. In this context, democracy means that everyone in the group is treated equally and has equal rights, […]

You’ve been GPL’d!

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Michael Bastos

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News

Published

August 8, 2013

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What WordPress and WooThemes can learn from Linux History I’d like to tell you all a story to give some perspective on recent events that have happened in the WordPress community. Once there was a smart Founder who wanted to change the world. He was a scrappy and outspoken 20-something who decided to build his own Open Source Software (OSS) project with a few friends because he knew he could design something that was better than the competition. He chose principle over profit and picked an OSS license that would protect the community over even his own interests. He handed over […]

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