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detaro on May 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

> If WordPress goes there's five million other blogging platforms I can switch to.

Have you done a full migration of a grown Wordpress blog to another system, without breaking stuff? It's not something you do on a weekend or two. Changing away from a tool that holds lots of data and configuration is expensive.

kazinator on May 10, 2019 [–]

Or, regarding his other remark, a migration of hundreds of thousands of lines of code from gcc to something else.

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