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I understand why Matt is frustrated and I sympathize with the situation, but I don't think his approach is going to win him any public favor nor have a long ter

• lioeters 2y ago
  Anyone who may have had sympathies for his arguments are all turned off now that he's gone on a "scorched earth" path. He dragged the non-profit foundation into a business spat involving Automattic and WP Engine, or maybe even between two rich guys, Matt Mullenweg and Lee Wittlinger at Silver Lake, who owns WPE. Using the org website to make a nasty post slandering WPE. Spreading it via the built-in news metabox on every WordPress dashboard. The org's plugin repository to block WPE's domains/IPs specifically. That's a single person wielding power in his domain, maybe all legal, but the org should be making decisions as a group and community.
  • tacker2000 2y ago
    Seriously, he spread it to every WP dashboard via the news widget? Thats pretty hilarious and insane at the same time. I’m really interested to see how this plays out. Is it possible that WPEngine could do a WP fork?
    • gkoberger 2y ago
      Sure, but that won't make the problem go away. The (most recent) issue is that WP is blocking downloading of extensions, so WPEngine would have to find a way to mirror every extension (and that might not be permissible by licensing?)
      • ipaddr 2y ago
        Would they just move the external call client side and use customers ips to download extension data or use proxies or tor to avoid ip ban?