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Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday.
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A battle over ownership and open-source software catches WordPress users in the middle.
WordPress, the world's largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier. Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation ...
WordPress, which Mullenweg began writing code for in 2005, is an online publishing platform that straddles the open source and commercial worlds.
Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing ...
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch -- everything is new ...
Automattic's "nuclear" war against WP Engine threatens the entire open-source movement, and the potential damages could go far beyond the WordPress incident.
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