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Matt you've lost the plot, time to step down or put independent governance in-place. How can you expect any developer to devote time to writing a plugin if the
by addedlovely 2y ago
Matt you've lost the plot, time to step down or put independent governance in-place.
How can you expect any developer to devote time to writing a plugin if the dictatorship of Matt can rug pull it at any time.
- baggy_trough 2y agoThis action is astonishing in its malignity. At this point I'm simply hoping for Matt Mullenweg to be excruciated in court.
- throw16180339 2y agoIt's a sad, sad day when you find yourself rooting for private equity vs. an open source company.
- wise_young_man 2y agoLast I checked Automattic is a privately held for profit company. One could argue that it’s a private equity too. Just using different words to twist a narrative.
- throw16180339 2y agoGood to know, thanks!
- mfkp 2y agohttps://thewpminute.com/private-equity-and-the-soul-of-wordpress/ https://thewpminute.com/private-equity-and-the-soul-of-wordp...
- toomuchtodo 2y agoThis is not the same. Private equity extracts as an investment, Automattic is an ecosystem participant (that happens to be privately held) that actively contributes to the community. That doesn’t mean Matt hasn’t taken things too far (I leave that to be determined by civil courts and the Wordpress community, no dog in the fight myself), but there is a difference, and it is very important to clearly delineate who is receiving benefit for value realized economically.
- woleium 2y agonot trying to be controversial, and I know some private investment firms are understandably not well regarded, but there are plenty you don’t hear about that are quite pleasant to work with
- immibis 2y agoAutomattic is now attempting to extract an investment, and in a much worse way than WPE ever did.
- everforward 2y agoI would argue that attempting to strong arm a competitor into paying for your open source product and then doing all of this when they won’t is way farther down the late stage capitalism road than most private equity companies. That’s probably mostly because the private equity folks are just better at extracting money without causing an international scene. Matt’s ineptitude doesn’t make it categorically different, though.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoI can understand the desire to prevent freeloading, but not agree with the methods to encourage better behavior. Economic systems are hard and imperfect.
- philistine 2y ago> Automattic is an ecosystem participant They were, until the CEO started burning decades of goodwill. At this point I'm looking at what I should do to get off Automattic for my website, I'm legit scared plugin developers are going to get spooked.
- agsnu 2y agoExcoriated?
- slater 2y agoCrucified?
- baggy_trough 2y agoNo.
- tomcam 2y agoThis is one of the funniest exchanges I have ever read on Hacker News
- baggy_trough 2y agoNo.