“We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress” is a nasty, monopolistic goal. Listening to Matt muse about 85% marketshare dreams is a real downer. But $300m is a down payment on monopoly dreams.https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/automattic-raises-300-million-at-3-billion-valuation-from-salesforce-ventures/ …
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I forget, which corporation owns HTTP?
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I'm a little reluctant to engage with snark - it often indicates bad faith. Still, in this case the underlying question (corporate versus other types of governance) is one I wondered about. I'm uncertain what the distinguishing feature is. [cont]
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HTTP has been replaced by better alternatives multiple times. We've just chosen to give them the same name after they became ubiquitous.
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