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It's the removal of "paywalls" (e.g., license checks, product keys, etc.) in plugins. A lot of developers see this as "stealing" and unethical.

If you really want to see the shady, dishonest side, try to have a discussion about nulling plugins. You'll get called every name in the book for adhering to the GPL.

The part which did it in for me was learning that Matt personally owns Wordpress.org. It's not the Foundation. It's not Automattic. It's Matt, personally. Nope, that's a bus factor…

This has been the approach since the M1s. See: https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/19/apple_m1_high_bandwid... > The SoC has access to 16GB of unified memory. This uses 4266 MT/s L…

Reporting to Google is generally useless. Skim these search results. https://www.google.com/maps/search/deck+builder+chicago/ The a large percentage of these listings are fake. The…

The article update links to a Google Doc in which Matt takes issue with the following remark from the article: > he's a wealthy CEO of a for-profit corporation that is attacking a …

Matt made a post a few weeks ago about his charitable donations.[0] It's really just a "I'm better than them" post. And it doesn't say where any of it was donated. 0. https://ma.tt…

> Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line. Matt already knows this.[0] photomatt: "It is also unethical to publicly speculate on my medication, medical state, or…

Harm of WP Engine.

I am not a lawyer, but I am really curious if this would amount to tortious interference.

Wow. I will never contribute anything to WordPress again.

You are abusing the community for your own gain. Stop!

> The launch is an intense marketing push with a component of artificial scarcity. I consider artificial scarcity to be an unethical practice. It's literally lying. It uses fake ti…

The article has been updated. > The Foundation also licensed the name to the website WordPress.org, which facilitates widespread access to WordPress-related software at no charge.

This is straight from Matt, himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782365

Wordpress.org isn't a legal entity. It's simply a domain owned by Matt. It seems Matt has a license to use the Wordpress trademarks. The Wordpress Foundation is a non-profit legal …

More context: "Due to recent events in the WordPress ecosystem, WP Engine employees have been blocked from accessing WordPress.org. This means the ACF team is unable to deploy upda…

Matt Mullenweg is angry at WP Engine (owners of ACF). He thinks they don't contribute enough to Wordpress development, so he's enacted a "nuclear" approach to dealing with it. WP E…

He demanded either 8% of their gross revenue, the equivalent in development time for employees who would be directed by WordPress.org, or some combination thereof. He also demanded…

WP Engine, itself. He is already threatening a "corporate takeover."[0] 0. https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporat...

EIG is not Newfold Digital.[0] Matt has specifically praised EIG hosts.[1] He even praised Godaddy, a company which he called a "parasitic company" just a few years ago.[2] This is…

WordPress.org blocked access for WP Engine to their developer account on the website. This means they can no longer push out plugin updates via this path.[0] This comes straight fr…

Software maintenance is not already existing software though.