WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five community members, citing their potential plans to fork the open-source platform. This action stemmed from a dispute between Mullenweg and WP Engine, a WordPress hosting service, over contributions and trademark usage. Mullenweg's decision has sparked controversy within the community, with some viewing it as inappropriate and encouraging a fork. The situation highlights tensions over leadership and the future direction of WordPress.
WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage them to fork the open source content management system.
The dispute centers on Mullenweg’s belief that WP Engine profits from the open source WordPress project without making appropriate contributions to its development and operations, and his attempts to have WP Engine change its ways by paying to use the “WordPress” trademark. Crucially, Mullenweg is CEO of the for-profit Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, develops WordPress, and like WP Engine, hosts websites using the blog publishing software, among other services. More on that later.
"To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts,” he wrote in a WordPress.org."I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort." Swisher sighed:"hat a pathetic turn for him into a stone cold asshole. I take no pleasure in saying this, but it's true and I am so sorry for the staff there."The staff working with Mullenweg is presumably somewhat smaller than it was a few months ago, as in October he invited employees who disagreed with his leadership to leave his affiliated set of companies.
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