A Thought Experiment: Could WordPress (a currently centralized open-source project) survive and thrive under a different, decentralized model – something akin to Linux?
A Thought Experiment: Could WordPress (a currently centralized open-source project) survive and thrive under a different, decentralized model – something akin to Linux?
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A Thought Experiment: Could WordPress (a currently centralized open-source project) survive and thrive under a different, decentralized model – something akin to Linux?
It’s on the long-term roadmap for my mirror, if successful, to allow the rise of other mirrors, as well as the distribution of components through those mirrors that creates unique environments. Mirrors would be able to talk to each other, allowing for distribution across mirror lines, too.
Though Automattic wrote, in their own post, that:
>Genuine WordPress software comes only from a WordPress Foundation- or Automattic-approved repository.
One might conclude from this that you can alter WordPress in any way you want under the GPL and distribute it however you like, but if you call it WordPress, it MUST be approved by them.
So while the core code might survive, you might not be able to call it WordPress.
No. Well. When you say Linux, do you mean Server or Desktop?
I think you mean desktop so the answer is no.
We can call it Gutenberg and fork it, problem is funding to maintain a group of core devs and committees and fund to run the repo (which cloudflare once offered, so we are covered there).
My intent, in writing [https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frd37p/its_time_to_solve_the_singlepointoffailure/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frd37p/its_time_to_solve_the_singlepointoffailure/), was to essentially start down the road of “different flavors”.
It’s on the long-term roadmap for my mirror, if successful, to allow the rise of other mirrors, as well as the distribution of components through those mirrors that creates unique environments. Mirrors would be able to talk to each other, allowing for distribution across mirror lines, too.
Though Automattic wrote, in their own post, that:
>Genuine WordPress software comes only from a WordPress Foundation- or Automattic-approved repository.
One might conclude from this that you can alter WordPress in any way you want under the GPL and distribute it however you like, but if you call it WordPress, it MUST be approved by them.
So while the core code might survive, you might not be able to call it WordPress.
No. Well. When you say Linux, do you mean Server or Desktop?
I think you mean desktop so the answer is no.
We can call it Gutenberg and fork it, problem is funding to maintain a group of core devs and committees and fund to run the repo (which cloudflare once offered, so we are covered there).