David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I think there's one analysis that's all about kind of the practical outcomes of this, which I think are bad.

There's also an argument that's simply about ethics.

This is not right.

You can't just show up afterwards and demand something.

This is not too dissimilar, in my opinion, to the whole Apple thing we talked about earlier.

Apple just showing up and feeling like they're entitled to 30% of everyone's business.

No.

That's not right.

That's not fair.

So I think Matt, unfortunately, kind of stared himself blind on the indignity he thought was being perpetrated against him because there was all this money being made by VP Engine making a good product and not giving quite enough back in Matt's opinion.

Tough cookie.

get mad too.

It's totally fine to get mad when people disappoint you.

That's not justification for upending decades of open source licensees and the essential de facto case law we've established around it.

This is why I chose to even weigh in on this because I like WordPress.

I don't use WordPress.

I'm not a part of that community.

I don't actually have a

dog in this fight.

I'm biased, if anything, towards Matt just as a fellow BDFL.