They can’t think doing all of this is going to reflect positively on their lawsuit do they?
Hopefully not. They’re clearly batting down the hatches and trying to centralise the market around WP.org — at least as far as The Verge calls ACF a “WP Engine plug-in”, and (although I’m not sure how accurate that is) Mullenweg shares that impression.
This all feels like an odd subversion of open source software, where maybe the commercial branches of WP are spread thin financially and need to play hardball with rivals to corner the market? I honestly don’t know, but Mullenweg’s belligerent rhetoric re WP Engine seems desperate and over the top.
I’m reminded of that other time a happy-go-lucky FLOSS founder turned monopolist, although Moxie Marlinspike wasn’t suing and being countersued when he personally shut down a third party Signal client in Github comments…
Man removed Matt Mullenweg.
What an asshole to break thousands of users sites as you try to extract rent for an open source project.
Imagine his face when PHP turns around and demands 8% of the WordPress projects funding.
Pretty sure he is a meaningful sponsor of PHP.
edit: https://thephp.foundation/ https://opencollective.com/automattic
I wonder how many wp forks this will result in?
