Saturday 29 October 2016

Dear Matt Mullenweg: an open letter from Wix.com’s CEO


We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us. Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.
First you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and as you can see they are all dated before your post. We have not checked if WordPress is using them, but you are more than welcome to do so, some of them are pretty good.
We always shared and admired your commitment to give back, which is exactly why we have those 224 open source projects, and thousands more bugs/improvements available to the open source community and we will release the app you saw as well.
Next you talk about the Wix App being stolen from WordPress. There are more than 3 million lines of code in the Wix application, notably the hotels/blogs/chat/ecommerce/scheduling/booking is all our code.
Yes, we did use the WordPress open source library for a minor part of the application (that is the concept of open source right?), and everything we improved there or modified, we submitted back as open source, see here in this link – you should check it out, pretty
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13723/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-com-s-ceo




source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo/

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