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Executive Director Of WordPress Resigns. (www.searchenginejournal.com)
submitted 2 years ago by King@r.nf to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Man, it's really hard to follow what's going on with that situation.

If anyone happens to have a TLDR I'd really appreciate it

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 122 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

TL;DR: Cofounder of open source project says super popular platform using their project needs to pay up for inane reasons. Chaos ensues.

In summary:

WP Engine is one of the most popular third party platforms built on top of WordPress.

They have a link and images on their webpage referencing that they are built on top of Wordpress (this is legal).

The former cofounder of Wordpress said that they are illegally using the Wordpress trademark.

WP Engine sends Cease and Desist.

WordPress Cofounder doubles down, blocks WP Engine and demanded WP Engine pay licensing fees for using their branding.

This pissed off a lot of people.

WP Engine sues. For a lot, including extortion, abuse of power, and asserts the cofounder of WordPress has criminally made false statements to the IRS.

The Executive Director for Wordpress resigns, presumably in solidarity with WP Engine and the community.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

This is a very helpful summary, thank you!

[–] Geologist@lemmy.zip 50 points 2 years ago

The problem is Matt Mullenweg, he’s the source of all the drama (and to quote someone else, he’s Musk, but coded in php lol).

There’s a good long form write up here: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt (Sorry, not exactly a tldr, but I found this article this interesting)

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Company runs a hosted Wordpress service that competes with wordpress.com. Wordpress (i.e. CEO Matt Mullenweg) wants a cut and is trying to strong-arm them. People are upset with this.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Totally out of the loop on this one.

[–] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

popcorn

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The deal is kinda nice to resign.

6 months of pay or $30k to resign, whatever is higher.

I support open-source and understand Matt. But dude, what a fucking wrong way to approach this.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am still confused who this is and why they felt the need to resign?

[–] King@r.nf 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's big news! Wow. This whole saga is getting to be a big deal.