Death by Tweet Irritated by the zeitgeist I am contracted to evangelise

I think there are some out there that still regard the productization of drupal as something on an anathema; something somehow antidemocratic. The truth is actually the reverse: the ability to pay for drupal provides me with an avenue to contribute to its growth and betterment without having to contribute directly to the framework. It also gives me a voice as a customer invested in the technology that I cannot possibly attain within the community through contribution of time and skills which I do not possess.

The reason to adopt drupal is neither the elegance of its code nor the “humility, encouragement, mentorship, collaboration [and] empowerment” supposedly espoused by its community. No, the reason to adopt drupal is that, both beyond and below a certain scale or particularity, it is rapidly becoming the only game in town, aside from enterprise level systems which you cannot afford in the short term and a grow-your-own solution which you cannot afford in the long term. In other words, its momentum.