The latest news on WordPress updates: Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, has emphasized the importance of the right to fork or split projects as the core of the open-source world. This is because WordPress itself was forked from the b2/cafeblog software, one of the earliest CMS platforms. There is also the ongoing development of the b2evolution project.
Within the WordPress ecosystem, there is the ClassicPress project which separated in 2018 due to disagreements with the Gutenberg direction, the new editor of WordPress 5.0. Recently, Vinny Green, a former employee of WordPress, announced the launch of the FreeWP project to develop WP2, a community-driven CMS.
While Matt did not directly mention WP Engine in his post, it is clear what he is referring to.
Source: WordPress
TLDR: Matt Mullenweg highlights the importance of forking projects in the open-source world, referencing the origins of WordPress from b2/cafeblog and recent developments like ClassicPress and FreeWP.
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