“My sense is that many enterprise WordPress administrators will think twice about continuing to use the software under these circumstances,” said IDC Research Manager Michele Rosen. “It’s such a shame to watch a leader in the open source community repeatedly sabotage his own project.”
“At this point, I have real concerns about the impact of Matt Mullenweg’s words and actions on the overall image of open source software,” she added. “Even if he feels that WP Engine’s actions are unethical and the court is wrong, his actions are clearly having an impact on the WordPress ecosystem, including his own business. It seems self-destructive.”
It’s like I heard the voices of thousands of cheap businesses owners who refuse to pay for a website cry out … …and then were silenced
Very misleading article. They’re not shutting down wordpress.org, just the registration of new accounts, plugin, etc
I always find it funny how WordPress somehow believes they aren’t just lucky that their EXTREMELY shitty software was useful at the time. It shows how power makes people think they have value.
I have tried it out like once every decade and it’s always the same hot mess and I end up making my own homegrown html mess.
Is there no other FOSS alternative?
Oh no, Joomla is just Wordpres with worse documentation.
Every once in a while I go looking for FOSS alternates to WordPress . . .can’t find one. Ghost is the closest I got and it’s nowhere near the same.
Wordpress is overpowered for most blogs, it is underpowered for most web apps.
Which is why I’m a Drupal fan. It’s wayyyy too overpowered for every purpose equally. …If I need a personal blog, there’s always Jekyll.
Summary: he can’t take his ball but he’s going home.
Prediction: WP Engine will open hosting of plugin source projects.
And discuss.
Matt never ceases to amaze with his smoothbrain decisions.
The amount of effort this moron puts into his weird personal vendetta against WP engine, even after the court told him that he has nothing, which was actually his last chance to end this kinda gracefully, could’ve been used for so much better things.
And he’s not only successfully kicking himself in the balls, he’s willing to throw so many years of community and project time and effort under the bus for it.
Go on Matt, keep telling how much you’re only doing this for WordPress.
Just a friendly reminder to anyone looking for free website hosting that public access Unix servers exist and would be happy to have new members. Most of them offer free membership that comes with web hosting, email, and other services. The only barrier to entry is you may need to learn how to navigate through a terminal.
We also have a Lemmy instance!
Well, I fully expect him to step on his dick, but I did not expect him to also kick himself in the balls while doing so.
Congrats Matt, rarely are my expectations of dumb behavior exceeded so spectacularly!
Mullenweg shat the bed again?
