2024-10-06 13:23:34 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

mira-hildegard:

> tevruden:

> > I just need everyone to see the kind of day Matthew Charles Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and tumblr user @photomatt had on the Orange Website which is basically diametrically opposed to tumblr:

> For context, famously well-adjusted non-harassment non-hypocrite and tumblr owner Matt is being sued for a whole litany of things (I’ll let their lawsuit explain it in full). in summary:

> - wordpress (the technology) is open source and nonprofit and used by 40% of websites,
> - matty boy owns automattic which owns tumblr and wordpress.com (a wordpress host)
> - the trademark for WordPress was falsely “transferred” to the nonprofit foundation wordpress.org – by the way, matt explicitly says “WordPress.org just belongs to me” – and in fact sneakily and tax fraudily licensed it back exclusively anyway. the foundation is a very very thin front.
> - for context, WP Engine are another wordpress host; they’re contributed to wordpress for a while now,
> - automattic has decided after some twenty years to extort WPE for a trademark (that they don’t own), explicitly described by matt as “a scorched earth nuclear approach”. guess why? they wanted profit
> - in addition to a boatload of libel (corporate beef, eh) the guy has explicitly cut off access so now fucking tens of millions of sites for a kajillion different things can’t update their plugins or issue support tickets. conveniently, automattic has found a security flaw in a wpe plugin. wanna update it to protect your site? uhhhh…
> - but it’s ok! wordpress.com (and a different company matt owns) explicitly offers a way to buy out the contract. see isn’t that easy?
> - 8% of Automattic have resigned, most of them from the open-source ecosystem team (gee wonder why)
> - guy’s now being a reply guy everywhere, including dick measuring about his charitable tax returns and for some inane reason contacting the ceo of reddit to change r/Wordpress to r/WordPress (no, really)
> - in a move which lawyers worldwide are calling “please keep posting surely good will come of this” he has decided to harass a retired woman trying to help the people who resigned