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This action is astonishing in its malignity. At this point I'm simply hoping for Matt Mullenweg to be excruciated in court.
It's a sad, sad day when you find yourself rooting for private equity vs. an open source company.
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I hate to speculate, especially from a distance. But I do wonder: - Why now? What snapped? Clearly WPE didn't go to "billions" over night. So why go nuclear now? - Doesn't he have a close and immediate circle of advisors and confidants? Are they speaking to him and he's not listen? Or has he locked himself in a room so to speak and is completely unapproachable? Either way, not good. - Is he trying to force WPE to for…
> Am I the only one who can't imagine a good outcome from all this? Here's a possible good outcome. 1. The board fires Matt, stops chasing windmills, and settles with WP Engine. I'm kind of surprised they haven't done so already - it's all downhill from here. He's either lying to them, not listening, or they're drinking the Kool Aid. 2. Matt steps down from the WordPress Foundation and transfers ownership of wordpres…
In my mind, shortly after the WordCamp US things should have leveled out. Someone should have pulled Matt aside and said, "OK, you vented. Pissed all over The Community who showed up, but you vented. Let's get this back on the rails..."
It's possible that was said. But Matt's listening skills aren't good and lately have gotten worse. To me, the long this stays off the rails the less likely it is to get back on the rails.
Someday this is going to be an HBR case study on how not to ensure your legacy. There should also be an HBR case study for Gutenberg, "How not to roll out a product."
Matt has been busy being a tool https://bullenweg.com/ I feel for everyone that uses Wordpress.
Why on earth is Matt’s nosebleed on this? Making fun of peoples medical issues is tasteless, and makes me wonder about the motivation behind the rest of the page.
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It's a sad, sad day when you find yourself rooting for private equity vs. an open source company.
Last I checked Automattic is a privately held for profit company. One could argue that it’s a private equity too. Just using different words to twist a narrative.
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It's a sad, sad day when you find yourself rooting for private equity vs. an open source company.
Last I checked Automattic is a privately held for profit company. One could argue that it’s a private equity too. Just using different words to twist a narrative.
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Drupal?
I am the last person in this world to malign Drupal, I have been contributing for twenty long, long years to it. But no, Drupal is not an alternative to Wordpress. Perhaps ten years ago but even then barely. Now? That's like saying a Kenworth semi is an alternative to a motorcycle. Sure, you can get from A to B on either but beyond that, they are really different tools for different jobs. Maybe the new "Drupal CMS" (…
I started a thread here a couple of weeks ago, "Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867 I feel like it's time to move off Wordpress. I don't feel comfortable about its future for my clients. What suggestions do you all have for alternatives?
Matt you've lost the plot, time to step down or put independent governance in-place. How can you expect any developer to devote time to writing a plugin if the dictatorship of Matt can rug pull it at any time.
This action is astonishing in its malignity. At this point I'm simply hoping for Matt Mullenweg to be excruciated in court.
It's very funny that Matt's original complaint was that WPEngine didn't contribute enough, and he has now banned them from contributing and stolen what they had previously provided
Do you think they were all of the sudden going to dramatically start contributing? I see this more as symbolically shutting them out. Nothing in this ongoing situation is about more than optics now
Even when you are banned from the event you are sponsoring.
Or something.