Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99% , from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its lawsuit against Mullenweg and Automattic
“They don’t actually make WordPress. They just resell it,” Mullenweg told Computerworld Friday evening. “If what they are reselling is no longer getting all of the free updates, they have less stuff to sell.”
“It doesn’t make sense for Automattic to pay people to work on all of these things,” he said. “We are under attack and we are circling the wagons. Our number one goal is for WP Engine to drop their expensive lawsuits against me and Automattic.”
A for-profit CEO controlling the direction of a open-source project is a big fucking problem
I’m willing to bet that 95% of Wordpress users just want a one-click solution to their non-technical needs and don’t give one shit about “innovation”. Otherwise they wouldn’t be using Wordpress.
What “innovation” has wordpress had since the dreadful new theme format?
I used it back in the day for the awesome comic press application. Was great for my webcomic. But now I hear thats gone. I was thinking of revamping my webcomic anyone know an alternative that I could integrate with my website?
ActivityPub integration?
Thought the same. There are surely more modern CMSs out there by now?
Here‘s my quick list:
- Kirby CMS - really good flat file CMS
- Laravel with Filament - really good for more advanced projects
Other people seem to prefer Craft CMS, Ghost or Statamic. There are lots of free or paid alternatives to WordPress that are already better in most regards.
If this is what he says in public, can you imagine what’s going to come out in discovery?
So if there’s a big zero-day WordPress won’t have dev resources to patch it quickly.
This may or may not be the same as it ever was.
“Drop their expensive lawsuit against me…” that tells you all you need to know about his views on things.
‘May or may not’ thanks for the insight.
I feel like they’re feeling the crunch and this is just a sugar coated facade to cover up mass layoffs and financial pressure. Definitely a “look what you made me do!” Energy that gives off “hedging bets” because we’re likely losing vibes.
