The tl;dr of the dispute is that, a few months ago, Matt Mullenweg decided to start ratfucking WPEngine, to which they responded by suing to get them to stop ra

The tl;dr of the dispute is that, a few months ago, Matt Mullenweg decided to start ratfucking WPEngine, to which they responded by suing to get them to stop ratfucking, and the court yesterday ordered Matt to stop ratfucking, to which he has apparently responded he doesn't want anything to do WordPress if he can't ratfuck WPEngine. The reason why Matt started ratfucking is somewhat unclear. In the most charitable interpretation, he was unhappy with how little WPEngine was contributing to WordPress, and intended to create a pressure campaign to get them to do more, which backfired considerably. In a less charitable interpretation, this was merely an extortion campaign which turned out to be unsuccessful. Matt claims that this is all in defense of open source, but I'm disinclined to believe him when the legal filings in his defense essentially amount to WordPress (whether the .com, the .org, the Foundation, the trademarks, the code itself, etc.) is entirely his personal property for him to do whatever the hell he wants with and we're all blubbering idiots for thinking that any action he'd ever taken (like setting up a foundation expressly to keep it from being one person's personal property) could ever change that.