This seems like an extremely petty fight
Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech investing giant Silver Lake
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#22Reminder: Wired’s past article on silver lake being evil
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No. He's acted like a petulant child.
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#24Headlines like this are reinforcing Matt’s narrative that this is somehow about private equity. Does anybody believe that he’d be acting any differently if they had different ownership? He’s jealous of their revenue and success and is willing to resort to criminal measures to take them down.
The thing that hasn't got a lot of attention so far is that Automattic sold their stake in WPEngine TO Private Equity.
And that the other active board member of the Foundation is the Managing Partner of a Private Equity firm, appointed by Matt himself.
So I don't really buy it when he talks about PE as leeches (they often are, but I think it's an appeal to popular opinion in this case.)
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It seems like Matt has leeched from the free work provided by thousands of people to enrich himself to the tune of several hundred million dollars... Silver Lake might be bad, but if so Matt is worse. Just this week he kicked a bunch of long-standing WordPress contributors out for having the nerve to question his insanity.
And maybe Matt shouldn't have sold Automattic's stake in WPEngine to ... checks notes ... Silver Lake.
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Weird measure, but okay. Nearly two-decades-long Linux contributor here. I don't know where that lands RE: percentile or relevance. You decide, clearly.
The license is what matters. Like, 'material' if you want to get technical terms out
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Doing good doesn't justify doing bad, and judging bad behavior doesn't require the judge to be a saint.
> I am surprised so many people here are against Matt
Perhaps that is a clue that he's in the wrong, and a hint to understand why.
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#29Headlines like this are reinforcing Matt’s narrative that this is somehow about private equity. Does anybody believe that he’d be acting any differently if they had different ownership? He’s jealous of their revenue and success and is willing to resort to criminal measures to take them down.
If you are going to trash a specific person in every single comment you make ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=meltdownMatt ), please do it using your own account, otherwise I think you are an involved party, like someone associated with WPEngine.
While i generally agree with what you’re saying, in this specific case i’d like to side with gp: given the current behaviour by automattic and Matt from wordpress i wouldn’t be surprised by retaliation against a specific individual for speaking their mind.
So it makes sense to allow for anonymous dissent (as long as it stays civil)
Re: Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech investing giant Silver Lake
#30Headlines like this are reinforcing Matt’s narrative that this is somehow about private equity. Does anybody believe that he’d be acting any differently if they had different ownership? He’s jealous of their revenue and success and is willing to resort to criminal measures to take them down.
If you are going to trash a specific person in every single comment you make ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=meltdownMatt ), please do it using your own account, otherwise I think you are an involved party, like someone associated with WPEngine.
As a passive bystander, I was amused by all this drama. However, after reading "Fallout" thread on reddit, I realized it's not amusing at all to a lot people. Some lost contracts, some are very worried about their business, jobs and entire careers.
That's all doing of one man. He deserved all the trash talk he gets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g0ycb1/the_fall...