WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org

> WP Engine wants to control your WordPress experience, they need to run their own user login system, update servers, plugin directory, theme directory, pattern directory, block directory, translations, photo directory, job board, meetups, conferences, bug tracker, forums, Slack, Ping-o-matic, and showcase. Their servers can no longer access our servers for free.

Sounds a lot like Android and Google: you can have the source, but good luck without our services!

I have no horse in this race, but this blog post seems like the hot-blooded vitriolic ramblings of a crazy person that can’t mentally separate their commercial and open-source endeavours.

The outrage definitely feels at least somewhat ‘put on’ for the sake of publicity. Who cares!?

No kidding. I have never seen a news article from a large serious organisation that had the word "bastardized" in it before.

The exaggerations in the post are crazy, that WP engine "broke" websites by disabling the news in the admin dashboard? If I recall that is like a one line code change. They disabled it because Matt published a disparaging post about WP Engine, knowing that it would show up in the admin dashboards of every wordpress install. That post was about them not being "real" wordpress because they disable post revisions (which apparently they have done for a decade). His own competing managed WordPress service (confusingly named Wordpress.com) disables features as well, unless you upgrade to a higher plan. What a mess. This should have continued to be handled by lawyers and not by using the foundation to disable updates for thousands of sites. What happens to vulnerabilities as a result of this move?