WP Engine does not contribute enough to the open source code they're making hundreds of millions of dollars a year on, and it's time for open source to fight back. He should've talked to a lawyer before making statements that WPEngine may call “slanderous”, but the fact he even offered a 300k USD severance package to any employee wanting to leave WordPress.com, because things could get more stressful in the coming time, is wild. What boss does that? It's very nice and thoughtful of the people who work under him.
I can't really hate the guy for speaking what we're all thinking.
There are no winners in war. Fireship described both sides as “the petty megalomaniac CEO, who is willing to burn down his entire community to prove a point” (Automattic/Mullenweg) VS. “the parasitic freeloading private equity firm, who's only guiding principle is financial gain” (SilverLake/WPEngine).
...and you know what? I can understand wanting to prove a point
@Erik Uden 🥥🌴🍑 Mullenweg's flaw is that he's being an egotistical maniac and showing all the flaws in the system he built. Instead of rallying a community, he's burning it down. And it *sucks*. With any self reflection he would be the uncomplicated hero.
Wordpress chose their license. They don’t get to just change the rules without warning. The license didn’t say “free until you make $x/ARR” or “free if you provide x hours/devs/$ in return”. It said free. This kind of bait and switch bullshit hurts all of us in FOSS, as far as I’m concerned.
@snipe Licenses either mean things or they don’t. Matt made a choice, and now he’s just being a giant pissbaby that someone else is taking a piece of his 400 million dollar pie.
@snipe “Should” vs “obligated to or else I’ll sue the shit out of you” are very different things. I’ve been in FOSS for 30 years. This is not how it’s done, nor how it should be done, and his bullshit hurts all of us
@snipe He’s not kinda right. Not even 1% right. He’s 100% wrong, and every single thing he has written since this blowout happened is his own fault. The elders tried to talk him down, he refused to listen.
As a FOSS maintainer, what I hope, what I want, and what I expect are usually wildly different things. I still won’t change the yarns out from under you
Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •WP Engine does not contribute enough to the open source code they're making hundreds of millions of dollars a year on, and it's time for open source to fight back. He should've talked to a lawyer before making statements that WPEngine may call “slanderous”, but the fact he even offered a 300k USD severance package to any employee wanting to leave WordPress.com, because things could get more stressful in the coming time, is wild. What boss does that? It's very nice and thoughtful of the people who work under him.
I can't really hate the guy for speaking what we're all thinking.
Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •There are no winners in war. Fireship described both sides as “the petty megalomaniac CEO, who is willing to burn down his entire community to prove a point” (Automattic/Mullenweg) VS. “the parasitic freeloading private equity firm, who's only guiding principle is financial gain” (SilverLake/WPEngine).
...and you know what? I can understand wanting to prove a point
silverwizard
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in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •@snipe He’s not kinda right. Not even 1% right. He’s 100% wrong, and every single thing he has written since this blowout happened is his own fault. The elders tried to talk him down, he refused to listen.
As a FOSS maintainer, what I hope, what I want, and what I expect are usually wildly different things. I still won’t change the yarns out from under you