Dries Buytaert & Matt Mullenweg respective founders of Drupal and WordPress spoke together for the first time at Schipulcon a few days ago.
They talked mostly about Open Source software and how their individual philosophies permeated the projects, Buytaert on how as a software engineer he planned Drupal’s architecture carefully from the start and Mullenweg on wanting to create a beautiful and simple platform for others to use.
It’s good to see that even though they’re competitors, their relationship isn’t at all adversarial. Mullenweg mentioned that for a few years WordPress actually used a snippet of code from Drupal, which is of course allowed because both are licensed under GPL.
The sound engineer or whoever it is that connected the sounds deserves to be shot… The interview could have been better, but the sound is crap!