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It can still work. For example if you look at https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/issues they have a whole bunch of tooling that uses AI to automatically triage and come up with PRs automatically.

Am I looking at the right thing? https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash > EmDash depends on Dynamic Workers to run secure sandboxed plugins. Dynamic Workers are currently only available on paid accounts. Upgrade your account (starting at $5/mo) or comment out the worker_loaders block of your wrangler.jsonc configuration file to disable plugins. Seems like a pretty poor replacement for WordPress, which will run on pretty much whatever random system happens to be within eyesight.

> As for me, I’ve found that the community and activity proxies are still good. Definitely still something to look into. A project I'm checking in on from time to time is https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/. It will be interesting to see how the project activity is unfolds? Are people using it in production. How many errors do they find. What do those fixes entail. What happens with the docs over time. Etc. I haven't had a change to look in depth, but based on a quick glance I'd say that the activity on the project seems like the tempo you'd expect of a similar open source project.

The generous take is that this is someone's pet project that marketing got too excited about, and that the leadership haven't applied their minds to. GPL provides a moat for the community, who are contributing their time and energy into a project. It ensures that, even if a commercial company grabs your software, extends it, and commercializes it, that you can fold those improvements back into your original distribution. While the commercial entity benefits from your free labor, you benefit back from theirs. Re-implementing WordPress (their words, not mine) as MIT licensed, while legally questionable, breaks that virtuous cycle and removes the community's moat. They've taken WordPress's roles and menus and borrowed its Gutenberg code (which is GPL), and launched it as an MIT licensed product, which breaks that virtuous cycle. It means e.g

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