I'm doing a programming project with Claude and it's great, like a puzzle, finding out what works for me and building something I normally wouldn't have time to maintain, but -- Claude has nothing but time for stuff like that. I'm building it to pass off, a common code structure that we both understand and I know how to evolve because I design my code for evolution. And it's going well. But then I realized it's the same Claude I ask general questions of so I tried this. "I would love to pass off wpIdentity to an open source development organization. The ideal would be the WordPress's community. Is there any precedent for this, one community acquiring a new product?" You can try typing that prompt in yourself and see what you get. One thing I learned is that the Apache Foundation was set up for this. And Claude is pretty firm that WordPress is not set up for that. #- A few months ago, some guys from Netscape came out with a way to get AI to pay called Really Simple Licensing or RSL. #
- I was really put off by the way they took the name that everyone knows came from me with no help from anyone. Maybe I could have done something about it, instead I found a way to have some fun. #
- With Really Simple versions of granola, spaghetti, ketchup, cola, baby shampoo and books. And it's time for another one!#
- BTW, I don't think RSL was a good name. Simplicity is not its main selling point, it's money! It's about making you rich. If I'm not mistaken. #
- But syndication, in 2002 -- was getting much more complicated than it needed to be. So "Really Simple Syndication" was supposed to be a little funny because it was not like the acronyms that tech usually comes up with. #
- It didn't pretend to be anything but a syndication format. Complexity is the enemy of good software. You have to work at making something no more than it is. It's a struggle. And you don't add complexity wihtout having a really good reason for doing it. #
