You really don't get it. Matt seems incapable of clearly separating his roles as: Person involved with WP foundation Person who is head of Automattic Person

You really don't get it. Matt seems incapable of clearly separating his roles as: Person involved with WP foundation Person who is head of Automattic Person who contributes/whatever to wordpress This is highly dangerous from a legal/conflicts of interest perspective, and will result in problems for the Foundation, and the Community, and for Matt. I don't support it because it's private equity grab or whatever, instead i don't support it because it's dangerous, arguably highly unethical, and appears like using your power against a competitor you don't like more than it looks like "trying to save the open source community from a private equity grab" He could easily solve all of these things by recusing from actions the foundation considers against his company's competitors, etc. That would be the clearly ethical thing to do. Instead he doubles down and appears to use all power available to him to stomp out a company that is the main competition for his business.