In the early days of #WordPress, I had a plugin in the official repository that was moderately popular.
Despite it being open source, I got a couple of offers to sell it. Anyone could fork it, so what I'd be selling was the power to publish a 1-click update to thousands of sites.
This is why Automattic's fork of #WPEngine's ACF plugin is not just a fork. A fork would not automatically replace the original. They're abusing their power to replace one of the ecosystem's most popular products.
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