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Why has no one intervened on what is clearly a mental breakdown of one man?
Been surrounding himself with yes men for years. I mean he literally said “commit to my ideas or leave with a half year of severance” and a lot of people took him up on the offer
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Literally a cartoon joke are you new to the internet?
Not relitigating this but wishing someone dies in a cartoon explosion is still wishing they were dead
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/man-arrested-making-minecraft-dea...
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My working theory is that investors are pulling up ladders now that interest rates are VC-unprofitable, and so either he finds a way to increase growth in profit y-o-y or they bail and let him crash like TypePad did years ago. (Except TypePad had paying customers, so their bandwidth bills weren’t anywhere near the looming threat WP is presumably facing.)
What he’s doing is basically what every cloud provider does but for some reason he is demonized even more
This is just a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic. If it was actually ran by volunteers, he couldn't make any of it stop... because people volunteer their time without being told what to do. I can't wait for him to lose millions of dollars for a hissy fit. It's going to be delicious.
> a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic It's run entirely by Mullenweg. The Board is clearly unable to have a big-boy conversation.
https://projectdmc.org/regarding-mullenwegs-mother-the-wpe-l...
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You never proved she did that Matt, you made a lot of accusations but outside of a cartoon joke, nothing
For example, see the similarly violent threats and abuse being aimed at journalist Jesse Singal via the Bluesky platform in the past couple of weeks. The parallels are striking.
"I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services" Can a court sue a person for lying/libel about the court itself? Now I'm imagining like how doctors and psychiatrists need to go to other doctors and psychiatrists for themselves. Normally if you lie about me we both go to a court, but if you lie about the court, where does the court go?
> As you may have heard, I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services to WP Engine thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers, so in order to avoid bothering the court I will say that none of the above applies to WP Engine, so if they need to bypass any of the above please just have your high-priced attorneys talk to my high-priced attorneys and we’ll arrange access, or just reach out directly to me…
Not a fan of Mullenweg either, but let's be realistic. For anyone who isn't completely detached from reality, dealing with lawsuits is draining, emotionally and mentally.
It's easy to point fingers and assume motives, but unless you're in the trenches, it's hard to truly know what's going on in someone's head. Given the circumstances, his decision to take a break isn't exactly out of the ordinary.
Most people would probably do the same if they were in his shoes.
> As you may have heard, I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services to WP Engine thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers, so in order to avoid bothering the court I will say that none of the above applies to WP Engine, so if they need to bypass any of the above please just have your high-priced attorneys talk to my high-priced attorneys and we’ll arrange access, or just reach out directly to me…
> He can't prevent WP Engine from getting access to Automattic services, so he acts out his revenge on the rest of the world instead? Not a fan of Mullenweg either, but let's be realistic. For anyone who isn't completely detached from reality, dealing with lawsuits is draining, emotionally and mentally. It's easy to point fingers and assume motives, but unless you're in the trenches, it's hard to truly know what's go…
"I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services" Can a court sue a person for lying/libel about the court itself? Now I'm imagining like how doctors and psychiatrists need to go to other doctors and psychiatrists for themselves. Normally if you lie about me we both go to a court, but if you lie about the court, where does the court go?
I'm confused why this statement stood out to you. Isn't that exactly what the court ordered? WP Engine could no longer be denied access to wordpress.org services, and thus he is now legally compelled to provide them with the services of wordpress.org.
I'm confused why you think it did.
That was a lie. I'm not confused. It's just that the obvious explaination is not flattering.
This is just a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic. If it was actually ran by volunteers, he couldn't make any of it stop... because people volunteer their time without being told what to do. I can't wait for him to lose millions of dollars for a hissy fit. It's going to be delicious.
> If it was actually ran by volunteers, he couldn't make any of it stop... because people volunteer their time without being told what to do.
...this doesn't really follow. Just because someone is a volunteer for an organization doesn't mean the people at the head of that organization have no control over what they do. As a library volunteer, for instance, I can't just take all the books off the shelves and start building forts out of them (unless the library board is into that sort of thing).
He can't force them to show up and do things he tells them that they don't want to do, but he absolutely could stop all operations, including those run by volunteers.