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?
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)
