> DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others.
And this?
> Rails, finally some open source! Looks like ~943k lines of code, 143k from Basecamp org. Automattic publishes 6.58M lines of open source code, 6.9x more than you. Yet, we’re “doing open source dirty”? Shopify used Rails to build a $7B/revenue and growing business, why didn’t you?
And this?
> 37signals inspired tons of what Automattic does! We’re now half a billion in revenue. Why are you still so small?
Matt isn't talking about sustainability for open source—no one could accuse Rails of being unsustainable—he's talking about open source as a vehicle for developing personal wealth.
If at this point you think Matt is motivated by anything other than greed, you haven't been reading enough of what he's writing. The trademark thing and "sustainability" is a very thin veneer on top of a man who thinks $400 million net worth is still too little.
