Mullenweg: True platform freedom only exists when building on open source
Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 38:42
Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, explains why open-source software provides structural guarantees against platform risk.
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“And again, you don't have freedom unless you're building on open source. That's why more and more companies and people are choosing if they're gonna build a business on top of something else, if you build on an open source, you have that guarantee. Even if you know, I grew devil horns and became evil and automatic decided to know, you know, whatever, like, WordPress would still belong just as much to you as it would to me. People can fork the code.”
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