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title: Why Drupal Faded
date: 2016-07-08T15:14:23+00:00
modified: 2016-07-08T15:19:06+00:00
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  - Publishing
  - WordPress
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# Why Drupal Faded

> Drupal faded because its corporate steward, Acquia, placed its own success ahead of bolstering Drupal’s status as a truly open standard. WordPress has reached its current level of ubiquity because its steward, Automattic, has a chosen a path that commits much more thoroughly to the open source ethos.

— [How Medium became LiveJournal for publishers](https://www.alleyinteractive.com/blog/how-medium-became-livejournal-for-publishers/) by [Matt Johnson](http://www.broadlatitude.com/) (via [ma.tt](https://ma.tt/2016/07/mortgaging-your-sites-future/))