while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back, if Mullenweg were serious about gaining support from the community he would give a date for people to migrate their systems off of WPEngine before they blocked it.
this just feels petty as hell and honestly makes me annoyed at him than anything, no warning whatsoever. nobody has time to just "migrate to pressable" on a whim. just be glad it's something not more critical than updating some plugins.
you also can't deny the obvious conflict of interest here where it feels like he's trying take a "competitor" down. sucks all around.
> while i understand the sentiment of wpengine not contributing back
To my understanding this isn't even particularly true - WPEngine have contributed significantly to events/sponsorships and with their own open source contributions. Matt's demand was allegedly instead for "tens of millions to his for-profit company Automattic".
Yeah this is my take as well. This feels like a mudsling fight and it’s messy. Whatever the .coms do is theirs, but the .org should not be in this one.
this just feels petty as hell and honestly makes me annoyed at him than anything, no warning whatsoever. nobody has time to just "migrate to pressable" on a whim. just be glad it's something not more critical than updating some plugins.
you also can't deny the obvious conflict of interest here where it feels like he's trying take a "competitor" down. sucks all around.