WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
The fight between WordPress co-creator Matthew Mullenweg and CMS hosting outfit WP Engine escalated over the weekend, with the latter seemingly madeThe weekend's action started on Saturday when Mullenweg – on behalf of the WordPress security team –news that WordPress.org would fork a plugin called"Advanced Custom Fields" and name the new effort"Secure Custom Fields" . The forked plugin"has been updated to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem.
ACF is supported by WP Engine – a private-equity-backed outfit that offers WordPress hosting and which Mullenweg hasof profiting from the open source CMS without making appropriate contribution to its development. While Mullenweg mentions a security issue as necessitating the fork, his post also states:"This is a rare and unusual situation brought on by WP Engine's legal attacks, we do not anticipate this happening for other plugins."Mullenweg's actions are extraordinarily concerning and pose the grave risk of upending and irreparably harming the entire WordPress ecosystem.
Another weekend item of interest is a lawsuit filed against Automattic and WordPress.com by an outfit called Very Good Plugins that hasThe WordPress/WP Engine fight has now raged for about three weeks, and the FOSS community is starting to consider the matter.with his perspective as the originator of an open source project from which others have profited, describing the affair as"a seemingly never-ending series of dramatic overreaches and breaches of open source norms.
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