“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/ …
One comment that was interesting (I'm paraphrasing): "Want to know what's worse than having a company decide the future of infrastructure? Having a committee of companies decide it."
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The person was trying to explain why web standards are such a sprawling mess. That said, I don't entirely buy it - it seems like a balance of competing interests probably prevents at least some forms of bad behaviour. Still, I'd like to understand this better.
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