Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions

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• MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He was being a massive dick, got spanked, and now he’s pouting? Am I reading this correctly?

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. While WP Engine definitely aren’t heroes here, Mullenweg has been mixing his business and the Wordpress org for a long time, and the licensing terms he decided upon for WordPress and the initialism WP didn’t support the “special case” situation he tried to force WP Engine into.

    If he had just kept his damn mouth shut and changed the usage/licensing terms so that commercial resellers over a certain size had to pay back into the costs for support, this wpuld have never been news.

    I highly doubt he’s been told that he must provide free support, and I suspect that he’s just been told that by his own rules he must provide the same free support for them that he provides to all of the other users.

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• hono4kami@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is he... okay?

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• zante@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People are saying he’s lost the plot, but he has a point doesn’t he ?

  I don’t know the details, but as I see it, he put a powerful tool in the hands of the people, for free. The ecosystem grew, money was made - in the case of WPengine plenty of money - But they weren’t prepared to kick back

  Whilst it’s permitted under the license, if they haven’t made any contribution to the project, it’s pretty shitty

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  • jonathan@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It doesn’t matter anymore if he had a point.

    Matt Mullenweg thinks he is Wordpress. He has been leveraging his position for his own financial gain for 20 years. He’s been pulling egotistical power moves like this the whole time, just against much weaker opponents. But now he’s taken on a private equity venture with more financial backing than him, and he’s about to get wrecked because he’s been a complete amateur trying to extort them.

    My prediction is this will finally dethrone him and shift Wordpress to a true community run model.

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  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He used to own a stake, sold it, tried to create a competitor, then tried to make life harder for his competition.

    There was a decision pathway where he didn’t make himself look like a fool. Making people log in and confirm their business is not affiliated with wp engine was the most cringe business move.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A judge told him to stop using his nonprofit to actively sabotage a competitor to his business and he goes crying to everyone that it’s “free labor” to not block them.

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