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[Navjot Singh]

WP Engine Promotions

Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of hosts ha…

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He is referring to himself in the third person. Everyone knows who wrote this.

 

[Sushubh]

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.

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[Navjot Singh]

Details of new alignment offer

>**New alignment offer:** I guess some people were sad they missed the last window. Some have been leaking to the press and ex-employees. That’s...

old.reddit.com

According to this, if you take his offer you lose access to your wp.org account, can't maintain any wp theme or plugin you worked on or even attend any future wp event.

Also he gave only 4 hours to resign which means many employees missed their chance coz Automattic has employees spread throughout the world.