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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a strong current of people who believe the WP fight with WPEngine is bad on this guy's behalf. He's megalomaniacal, he's being a spoiled rich guy, stuff like that.

Personally I don't see it, but I may not know enough about it. But I see this as a part of that conversation. Someone's arguing that fighting with a private corporate business whose model depends on exploiting the software they have no intention of supporting is outrageous and he's Gone Too Far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Matt has muddled the waters on open-source.

He owns a for-profit company, and has a lot of power on the non-profit open-source version. And he's making decisions that affect both.

Open-source contributors who only want to help the nonprofit are now being forced to opting in/agreeing to be part of the lawsuit. Everything in the WP slack where volunteers participate is now part of legal evidence.

All of this only benefits Matt.

1/10th of his company resigned. Volunteers are pulled in and having to decide if contributing to open-source is worth all of this.