Tweets From Javier Casares  ## Metadata - Author: [[@JavierCasares on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Javier Casares - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/JavierCasares ## Document Notes ## Highlights - https://t.co/9CJfVuVw0W  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963086073733523)) - https://t.co/BVJ1iEGbAG  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963082395242776)) - https://t.co/u6DxRciXHJ  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963078653984789)) - https://t.co/uegskJL8ZO  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963074904227945)) - https://t.co/x1bSk6VhNW  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963071183880345)) - https://t.co/zTJeasE40O  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963063491559793)) - https://t.co/csTpRlOSS3  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963059943182445)) - https://t.co/av8b8wYMgi  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963055698571696)) - For anybody who wants to understand why I've been banned from the #WordPress Slack. https://t.co/NxSTesk1HG https://t.co/TdA1iQtIPZ  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1843963052183433331)) - Hello, [WordPress](https://twitter.com/WordPress). We are tweeting precisely because many things are happening. In response to the question, I provide several answers: 0. I have no affiliation with any company (except my own, in which I am a 100% partner). My relationship with other companies is the same as one can have with any other at a commercial level, if any. In this case, I have no relationship with WP Engine or Automattic. In the case of my relationship with Matt Mullenweg, yes, because I am part of the WordPress Community and therefore use https://t.co/cB65cDy2Uj as the gathering place for the community. 1. Regarding the idea that all companies/individuals who earn a minimal amount of money from open-source projects should donate more and participate in them, whether with time, people, or money: I entirely agree. No one disputes that; it is something morally implicit in open source. Always alongside the WordPress community. 2. Regarding the fact that anyone can modify the GPL code in any way they want and make or sell it or offer it as they wish: undoubtedly, it can be done. I am completely against including it in WordPress/.org posts as a throwaway weapon or excuse to attack anyone. WordPress is either GPL or it is not, with all the consequences. 3. On the commercial use of registered trademarks: legally, this has been functioning for many years, and, in the current situation, I have no stance as the law will decide. 4. About WordPress/.org as Matt's personal project: personally, I would very much like Matt to transfer everything related to the WordPress project to the WordPress Foundation, so that, in addition to managing the brand for non-commercial use, it would also be the steward of open source, the WordPress/.org site, its systems, its services, its tools like Slack, and the entire Community. This would imply that the Foundation requires many more resources, so that transfer should be done gradually. 5. On the blocking of people from the Community: I would really like things like the Etiquette https://t.co/rFxUzKrjhM to be genuinely applied to all members, including Matt, as an example of a leader of an open-source project, and therefore, except for accounts that have abused (spam, attacks, or similar), be restored and access returned before it is too late. And, to [photomatt](https://twitter.com/photomatt) directly, I truly understand the current complex situation, but as you have said many times, any collaboration, no matter how minimal, is valuable. Do not leave aside the people who love WordPress, those of us who have participated for more or less time and believe in the people who make it up. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1844809082600915152)) - #WordPress #WPdrama What I expect to happen in the next few days: On Monday, the 21st, Mary Hubbard starts and can put a wall between Matt and the Community (.org). - Access to all blocked contributors is restored, both in Slack, and on Twitter. - The login access checkbox is removed. - The obligation to buy a ticket to a WordPress Event requiring a user access is eliminated. - I have doubts about the ACF/SCF. In any case, although debatable, I do not think it is necessary to restore the community (for now). If these things happen, which indirectly assumes that Matt will focus “on his company stuff” and leave the Community and the Project aside, I think most contributors will actively participate again. But this depends on that vet power that can be applied. If at least the first 3 things on the list don't happen, I think we're already going to mid-January. Why? In mid-November WordPress 6.7 comes out, and I doubt that anyone will start setting up equipment for WordPress 6.8 immediately, for one thing because from late November to early January holidays begin in many parts of the world where most of the contributors are. Add to that, that people will want to get out of the current noise and will want to temporarily get away from the project and rest (which I recommend to everyone, including myself). This means that we are going to early mid January which will be when the 6.8 equipment will be assembled, which also means a delay in the launch date, which would not be in February-March, but in April-May (which would probably lead to only two releases in 2025). And this is where we will really have to see how everything is in general, how is the legal part, how many contributors there are (and if there are not, how Automattic will supply them)… I sincerely hope that the first step happens because if it doesn't, this whole process and the next releases will be uphill. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/JavierCasares/status/1846116642226381046))