I'm having a hard time thinking of anyone who has worked as hard and spent as much money to destroy their own open source community as Matt Mullenweg. What past collapses can we compare the current WordPress tantrum to? All I remember are license changes where people discovered that their project stewardship wasn't as valuable as they thought when people forked an old version to keep the old license, such as XFree86 two decades ago, or Hashicorp last year.
@jamey Ellison's Java comes to mind.
@trevorflowers ooh, interesting, that comparison isn't immediately obvious to me. what do you mean?
@jamey Oracle bought Java with Sun and proceeded to ruin what was a flourishing ecosystem of open tools by routinely destroying any trust in the company.
Trust? Oracle.
Seed money from the CIA. Ellison being the Former Evil Villain until Elon came along.
You've never signed a licensing agreement with them. I can tell.
Ed. I'm an Old Sun Guy, I guess.