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For me, the fact he tried to compel the WPE CEO to work for him or else he would expose that she was in negotiations with him is the most unhinged thing I’ve ever heard in a hiring process. Quite literally an affront to freedom. My most charitable guess at what is going on is severe mental illness.
"Quite literally an affront to freedom"? Really? Say more.
> We’re still getting lots of questions about this [checkbox]. What if an agency is part of your affiliate program[…]?
…addressing the WP Engine firm whose users he’s been weirdly bullying with all this?
He attempted to frame his own ambiguously menacing checkbox-cum-loyalty-oath as somehow being of its target’s making? What?
Is that type of… duplicitous? dissociative? schizophrenic?… tactic common these days in twitter kinds of spheres?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/tumblr-ceo-publicly-spars-...
Matt has handled this whole thing so poorly. I wanted to be on his side but everything that has come out is just not a great look. He could have had basically the entire internet on his side just by laying out the facts: "They use our product for free, generate hundreds of millions in revenue, and don't contribute back. It's just not fair. Please contribute more." Instead this tantrum has turned a bunch of people tha…
It seems like every step Matt makes just makes the whole situation worse.
Some of the best and now most commercially critical open source software started a long time ago, by people buying into RMS-like visions of the future.
Turns out, we did not arrive in that future.
We arrived in the one where both $xxxB companies and their countless cargo cultists explot every means possible to profit from open source software, making angry demands on volunteers and small teams, while giving back as little as possible.
It's essentially a test to find every open source developer's breaking point. Recently, we found Matt's. Next month, it'll be someone else's.
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"Quite literally an affront to freedom"? Really? Say more.
Work for me or I will publicly shame you, try to damage your reputation, and make your employees potentially question your loyalty. Threatening people if they don’t take a job with you is in the most literal way a challenge to your autonomy as a human being.
Anyways, if you thought there was any freedom or purity to the tech job market, bad news for you.
Like under Apache foundation or something