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Most WordPress customers aren't so much locked into "WordPress", the application, but rather a provider of WordPress with a custom CMS. Unless their provider sw
by talldayo 2y ago
Most WordPress customers aren't so much locked into "WordPress", the application, but rather a provider of WordPress with a custom CMS. Unless their provider switches, they aren't really enabled to consciously protest WordPress.
This goes for both WP Engine and Automattic. Could be the reason why both are comfortable going nuclear on each other - they know their users don't have an easy alternative.
- Kye 2y ago>> "Could be the reason why both are comfortable going nuclear on each other - they know their users don't have an easy alternative." I've followed this from the start and as best as I can tell Automattic is the only side that went nuclear. WP Engine sent a C&D, then filed a lawsuit when the attacks persisted, and seems to have gone quiet since then aside from responding to the takeover of ACF. WP Engine's response is how I expect a professionally-run organization to handle things: address technical issues as they pop up while continuing to provide the service people pay for, but otherwise quietly wait for the trial. Meanwhile there's a new bomb lobbed from Matt Mullenweg 1-2 times a day at WP Engine, the WordPress community, individual contributors, or some combination while Automattic employees are out doing the work of a PR department.