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nixCraft 🐧

There is this war going on between WP Engine and Wordpress co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg. He called WP Engine a "cancer" and accused it of profiting from WordPress without contributing to development of the CMS. Now, WordPress org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk theregister.com/2024/09/26/wor

The Register · WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at riskBy Thomas Claburn

@patricus wordpress hosting business that makes billions every year using open source version of wordpress software

@nixCraft I have several clients impacted by this. What a mess.

@nixCraft this will go very poorly for Matt, the only cancer in the WordPress community is his hubris. Tearing people down publicly for an opinion only serves to rip the community apart.

Furthermore, WordPress and its repository software is GPL licensed. Cutting access to someone for "not contributing" enough is a judgement no single person should be allowed to make. Plenty of WPEngine clients are contributing to WordPress.

@nixCraft

This guy needs to get help. Between his transphobic attacks on tumblr and now this, he seems unfit to be in charge of anything.

@nixCraft From his blog post:

WP Engine is free to offer their hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code to their customers, and they can experience WordPress as WP Engine envisions it, with them getting all of the profits and providing all of the services.


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wordpress.orgWP Engine is banned from WordPress.org – WordPress News

@nixCraft i want to say there is more drama in open-source but I am sure it's just as bad in corporate life but nda covers it up