Automattic is the company that runs Wordpress.com. Its founder, CEO, and president is Matt Mullenweg. Wordpress was started by two people: Matt Mullenweg and Mi

Automattic is the company that runs Wordpress.com. Its founder, CEO, and president is Matt Mullenweg. Wordpress was started by two people: Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Automattic was founded about 2 years after the Wordpress project was started. So two guys forked an older OSS project, and a couple years later, created a company, licensed the Wordpress name to that company, and created an SaaS offering bearing the same name as the open source project. I guess that the author of this page has a problem with that, and thinks that other people should have a problem with it too.