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F this guy. He’s only causing more work and I hate working.
This is so frustrating as a -very- longtime user and proponent of WP and a current WPE customer. Mullenweg is coming across as petty and out-of-touch with his user base.
Holy crap he is just continuing to build the case against him. His own for-profit automattic’s plugins have built in upsells and add additional data harvesting code that you can’t opt out of while you use them.
He just keeps treating the non-profit .org stuff and his Automattic for-profit as interchangable.
It’s time for the community to find a solution for distributed update servers that at most only rely on Mullenweg for hash checking to prevent tanpering. This is blatantly just a vendetta now.
It’s time for a fork that’s not under hostile control.
Local man sets career on fire.
I have to admit - I’ve struggled to follow this, mostly because every player is called the same damn thing. There’s the website, and the software, and the standard, and they’re all named WordPress, except it’s actually two websites named WordPress, and WP Engine isn’t about the WordPress engine, it’s another website. But it sounds like this guy fucked up in several distinct directions.
The view from afar seems to be that Matt here had reasonable complaints which he, personally, escalated into absurd restrictions, and long story short he’s lost the mandate of heaven.
Haven’t dived too deep in this case. But aren’t WP engine leeching the open source project without barely contributing back to the OSS project?
I’d like to preface this with the fact that I do donate time, money, and on occasion PRs to open source projects.
But frankly, I don’t believe anyone has any obligation to donate to an open source project.
I also don’t think anyone has any obligation to give 8% of their revenue to a project that’s completely under the control of a man that ALSO runs a commercial entity extracting money from the same project.
And I REALLY don’t think you have any obligation to give a guy worth $400 million one damn cent for using his GPL-ed software.
It’s not like he’s going to take the money and give it to the people in the community developing it, it’s going to go into his business - and thus right into his pockets.
This is just CEO corpo greed, and frankly, screw Matt. He has enough, and if his business is falling over because he got greedy and got into bed with VC and bought a failed social media network, well, that’s his problem and not everyone who uses Wordpress’.
But doesn’t that definition apply to the vast majority of people/companies that use WordPress?
Then the mistake was made many years ago by releasing the code under GPLv2, with no obligation to contribute back.
