9. Wordpress
● Born in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as fork of
b2/cafelog
● Start as blog platform and develop to CMS
10. Wordpress
● Running about 16% of www ~ 90 Millions
● Automattic manage wordpress.com
○ wordpress.com have over 4 billion page views per
month
● WordPress Foundation own copyright and
logo
en.wordpress.com/stats/
12. Let's start, what if... ?
● LAMP was not open source
○ Platform of proprietary world
○ $$$$ before starting use wordpress
● On the other side, more use of LAMP
○ Make it more compatible & versatile
○ All open source CMS grow
13. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● Less websites
● Website is a set of related web pages containing
content such as text, images, video, audio, etc
(wikipedia)
17. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● No access for everyone
○ Linus: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
● Accessibility in low priority (not a money
maker)
18. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● On the other hand, open source:
○ Access to everyone (W3C websites)
19. What if Wordpress wasn't open source?
● On the other hand, open source:
○ Access by everyone - download and change
○ And much more
21. Open Source!
What happens behind the scenes?
● Who manage the code?
● Who contribute features?
● Who fix bugs?
● Who document?
● Who translate?
● Who publish release notes?
● Who build modules?