alt Hacker News> it feels a bit like a shake-down
It is a shake down. And the problem with negotiating with people like this is that it never stops.
There will never be enough contributions and money.
> it feels a bit like a shake-down
It is a shake down. And the problem with negotiating with people like this is that it never stops.
There will never be enough contributions and money.
> the problem ... with people like this is that it never stops.
By contrast, this doesn't make WPE look good:
WP Engine had been siphoning “tens of millions” of dollars away from Woo’s revenue share partnership with Stripe into its own coffers. It’s understood WP Engine has been swapping out WooCommerce’s Stripe Connect Account information for its own when a user installs WooCommerce.
That's the sort of thing that, if a proven problem, could seem less like a shakedown and more like active wire fraud.
EDIT: As replies note, GPL. OK, but I realize I grew up thinking if someone gives me software it isn't to rip out their revenue model and replace it with mine, it is for me to do my own value added thing with it. Meaning, the stealth edit might not be wrong, but still seems uncool.