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>The next day, in a post titled, “WP Engine is not WordPress,” Mullenweg wrote that even his mother didn’t know the difference, and he said WP Engine is “profit
by mthoms 2y ago
>The next day, in a post titled, “WP Engine is not WordPress,” Mullenweg wrote that even his mother didn’t know the difference, and he said WP Engine is “profiting off of the confusion” and “needs a trademark license to continue their business.”
>His mom wasn’t the only one confused.
>Bob Perkowitz, president of environmental nonprofit ecoAmerica, told CNBC that he’s known Mullenweg for 16 years and is even an investor in Automattic. For a number of his organizational and personal websites, Perkowitz said he’s long been a WP Engine customer. Tuning in remotely, he heard Mullenweg’s WordCamp presentation.
>“I always thought that was part of WordPress,” Perkowitz told CNBC in an interview, referring to WP Engine. “They’re misleading, and they don’t contribute to the community.”
>Perkowitz said he’s having his website administrator migrate all of the websites to different hosting companies.
Can you imagine being a 'journalist' and using an Automattic investor and personal friend of Matt's as a source to support the claim about WPEngine being misleading? I mean, seriously? Who cares what this guy thinks, he's hardly neutral (or even well informed).
Besides, does anyone believe someone would invest in the WordPress hosting company and then pay to host his sites somewhere else? I don't buy it. Not for a second.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI buy it. Seems like a relevant person to interview IMO.
- snowwrestler 2y agoI think it’s very plausible that this guy was an investor in Automattic but that his nonprofit tech team picked WP Engine to host their organization’s sites. It’s a good service! Undoubtedly Matt connected him with the reporter to provide a supportive quote. And I bet his tech team absolutely loved to get an emergency edict from their president to change all their site hosting ASAP.