5 ms·
> How would you react if someone demanded you pay them 8% of your annual revenue? Yeah. Like that. If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I wou
by padiyar83 2y ago
> How would you react if someone demanded you pay them 8% of your annual revenue? Yeah. Like that.
If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I would pay it. Seems these days, doing what's honourable is not that simple.
- theamk 2y agoYou are making it sound like it was a single person who could not pay their bills. It was not. That's a $7.5 billon company threatening $1 billion company over totally frivolous reasons.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> If I built my product on the labour of that "someone", I would pay it. Automattic is not contributing 8% of their revenue to PHP. (Nor MySQL, Apache, or all the other bits of free labor they're similarly built off.)