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WP Engine sues Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg | TechCrunch

Hosting provider WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.

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Automattic Alignment

Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurrica…

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159 people left the company.

 

[Sushubh]

“WordPress.org just belongs to me personally,” Mullenweg said during an interview with The Verge. WordPress.org exists outside the commercial realm of Automattic, as a standalone publishing platform that offers free access to its open-source code that people can use to create their own websites. But it’s not a neutral, independent arbiter of the ecosystem. “In my role as owning WordPress.org, I don’t want to promote a company, which is A: legally threatening me and B: using the WordPress trademark. That’s part of why we cut off access from the servers.”

Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’

WordPress’s WP Engine battle is dividing the community.

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[Sushubh]

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so the latest seems to be... he disclosed a vulnerability in an addon provided by wp-engine. and to fix the issue wp-engine needs access to wp addon store or something. and he is inviting users of the addon to switch to an alternative product.


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WP.org calls it a fork, though... Secure Custom Fields

 

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Yep. Stealing is the new forking.