"Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back
customers fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a
new strategy they call competing.
(What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example is this
exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
developer of Movable Type:

Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”

byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed,
nor has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of
what is open and closed source at Automattic.”

Okay, here’s some accounting:

WordPress is 100% open source, GPL..."

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