Tag: community

People in the south were fiercely loyal to their family, but more distrustful of outsiders – whereas in the north people were happier to form connections with strangers

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it seems likely that some countries are rich and others poor because of a messy combination of economic incentives, culture, institutions and chance – which is most important remains unclear.

https://repositorythe.wordpress.com/2020/09/20/hard-work-and-black-swans-the-economist

Products vs. Services

I read a fascinating post today — including the following quote:

WordPress doesn’t provide a service; our software is publicly available and offered for free

https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2019/07/30/update-sanctions-and-open-source/

This quote completely astonished me — especially because I had just yesterday posted something about the WordPress project, regarding precisely this topic (“Promoting Network Effects vs. Promoting Customization Services“). Of course I could also be flabbergasted by the notion of free (FYI: “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” 😉 ), or perhaps also other matters.

While Josepha‘s post has its problems and issues (and also very deep insights into what the whole notion of a “free market” is in the context of government regulations), I also sense that there is an aspect of “soul-searching” going on here. Maybe there are differing opinions within the WordPress project? (another FYI: just about a month ago @ WordCamp Europe in Berlin, Matt seems to have argued that services are indeed central to the WordPress project 😯 )