Matt has (in Slack) advised everybody to obtain their own legal council before they sign in to Wordpress’s support forums/plugin index/issue tracker/community resources again. (Many long-time contributors who cannot afford to hire a lawyer to deal with Matt’s whims have unfortunately decided this means they can no longer contribute.) Matt’s explicit stated (in Slack) intent is to require everybody to be involved in the conflict and choose sides. I’m sure not on Matt’s side, so I guess that means I’m on WP Engine’s, despite their mediocre service and contributions.
But no, I won’t use my own account. Matt seems rather vindictive and I wouldn’t want to risk my employer being subject to that.
That's all doing of one man. He deserved all the trash talk he gets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g0ycb1/the_fall...
So it makes sense to allow for anonymous dissent (as long as it stays civil)
And that the other active board member of the Foundation is the Managing Partner of a Private Equity firm, appointed by Matt himself.
So I don't really buy it when he talks about PE as leeches (they often are, but I think it's an appeal to popular opinion in this case.)
Is that true?
They say it is … https://wordpress.org/40-percent-of-web/
As far as I can tell, the stat is for websites whose CMS is known, which is a far far smaller number.
Endless hype cycles for web stacks behind us, endless hype cycles yet to come, and meanwhile everyone in the real world is merrily pottering along with the same PHP + jQuery config they've used for decades.
>His mom wasn’t the only one confused.
>Bob Perkowitz, president of environmental nonprofit ecoAmerica, told CNBC that he’s known Mullenweg for 16 years and is even an investor in Automattic. For a number of his organizational and personal websites, Perkowitz said he’s long been a WP Engine customer. Tuning in remotely, he heard Mullenweg’s WordCamp presentation.
>“I always thought that was part of WordPress,” Perkowitz told CNBC in an interview, referring to WP Engine. “They’re misleading, and they don’t contribute to the community.”
>Perkowitz said he’s having his website administrator migrate all of the websites to different hosting companies.
Can you imagine being a 'journalist' and using an Automattic investor and personal friend of Matt's as a source to support the claim about WPEngine being misleading? I mean, seriously? Who cares what this guy thinks, he's hardly neutral (or even well informed).
Besides, does anyone believe someone would invest in the WordPress hosting company and then pay to host his sites somewhere else? I don't buy it. Not for a second.
Undoubtedly Matt connected him with the reporter to provide a supportive quote.
And I bet his tech team absolutely loved to get an emergency edict from their president to change all their site hosting ASAP.
The license is what matters. Like, 'material' if you want to get technical terms out
Silver Lake might be bad, but if so Matt is worse. Just this week he kicked a bunch of long-standing WordPress contributors out for having the nerve to question his insanity.
> I am surprised so many people here are against Matt
Perhaps that is a clue that he's in the wrong, and a hint to understand why.