You mean they stole a developers plugin. This is not a fork.
You are completely incorrect. Using emotional language is not going to make you right. Read the GPL license rules, which gives WordPress every right to do this. I’m glad they have we need to keep the development going.
You obviously don’t know how forks work. A fork would end up with a new space on the wordpress repository, and plugin namespace. They just took it over including all the reviews ands everything, and updating ACF in WordPress replaces the original plugin with this.
@studiokb
Who’s talking about folking here that you need to bring your argument to? The title of the post even says “taken over,” and we all know that.
Well it’s not just about the terminology here guys. It’s also about the overall intention and well, yes, ‘taking over’, is a phrase that to me also means ‘supervised’, ‘rescued’, ‘preserved’, ‘protected’. An intervention is sometimes required to prevent potential damage or even catastrophe. Imagine if you owned a business and a rogue employee was stuffing around with a project. You’d probably jump in to a) protect the code and b) protect the people (customers) using it.
In this case, many people could lose a lot if WPE pulled the plug (or worse?) on ACF, as they could have done. I get that you’re upset – but in the end, if you don’t like it, you’re free to vote with your feet. Personally, I’m all for Open Source and allowing users to make copies, take over, develop and generally experiment, grow and change any particular code base. I get that private money capitalists don’t like this concept (as it goes against their ideology of Private Property) but the reality is, it makes code stronger and platforms more robust when multiple people feel invested and able to tinker however they like. Personally, I try to steer away from code that is not open source (though it’s not always possible), because you don’t know what you’re getting.
It would be nice if WPE and WP could resolve this without lining the pockets of the bottom feeders, but that seems to be the way it’s going. If WPE who have very deep pockets, had contributed more, perhaps this situation would probably never have arisen…. BUT you know, we’re all human – spats happen, sometimes they turn into all out wars. Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far.
@iamhere
Well said and I agree. One of the main reasons I invest my projects in WP is open source.
