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When this story first emerged, I was somewhat sympathetic to Matt/Automattic. But geeze, he is just looking worse and worse. Between this tantrum and threatenin
by next_xibalba 2y ago
When this story first emerged, I was somewhat sympathetic to Matt/Automattic. But geeze, he is just looking worse and worse. Between this tantrum and threatening a former employee over a very innocuous statement [1], his credibility is pretty low in my opinion.
[1] https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/nice-guy-matt-mullenweg-ceo-of-wordpress-com-cries-foul-and-threatens-me-with-legal-action-f116ac57d862 https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/nice-guy-matt-mullenweg-c...
- jarule 2y ago[flagged]
- hodgesrm 2y agoKellie's article is a well-written and reasonable response to mean-spirited bullying. It makes me wonder why a lot of people think it's good to have Silicon Valley companies run by trolls. Is that really the way to build successful businesses? Edit: added missing word "companies"
- mvdtnz 2y agoFar out, this whole thing is links to links to links, is there somewhere I can read a summary of this whole stupid drama?
- ValentineC 2y agoSomeone shared this LWN article somewhere among all the discussions, and it seems neutral enough: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/991906/d7340f3b866d855b/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/991906/d7340f3b866d855b/
- legitster 2y agoIn that thread, Matt instantly jumping to a "you are against me/you must be the enemy" is suuuuch a red flag that he has Main Character Syndrome.
- mthoms 2y agoI think naming his company AutoMATTic really says it all.
- evanelias 2y agoTo be fair, this was actually a common thing for blogging software companies at the time! Six Apart (makers of Movable Type) was named after the six-day age gap between the company's founders. And Tumblr Inc was originally Davidville Inc, David Karp's consulting company.
- mthoms 2y agoNow that's a bit of trivia I did not know.