The WordPress Drama: $B Companies vs. Open Source

This man controls 40 percent of all websites. In this video, you can find out why this is problematic and why the #WordPress blog software is currently at the center of a legal dispute between two multi-billion dollar companies.

🍿 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Matt Mullenweg
02:16 WordPress
03:11 WP Engine
05:28 Automattic Inc.
06:13 The WP Engine Case
09:08 WordPress Trademark
13:06 Cancer to WordPress
15:39 Freedom through Software
18:58 WP Engine Ban
20:38 Divided Community
23:28 My Opinion

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[lnplum]

WP Engine isn't the good guy in this story but Matt is infinitely worse and went fully mask off about what kind of person he really is. He not only clearly demonstrated his conflict of interest but weaponized WordPress, the WordPress website and the WordPress foundation, all of which are supposedly independent or separate entities, only to illegally pressure a rival of his hosting company to pay money to his foundation. Many open source projects have BDFLs - benevolent dictators for life. Matt has demonstrated that he wants that title but doesn't care about the B. He burnt all of that goodwill WordPress has built and made the project a huge liability. If WordPress fragments, it's entirely his fault.

[nick]

"half of the story", nothing stops Matt from publishing the messages he got from WPE 😄 Matt acted like an irrational todler

[AxelSegebrecht]

Danke, Franz. That was very helpful and informative. I rely on OSS and WP in particular for my income and am worried. Perhaps a fork does make sense!

[dracula]

insane that wordpress 40% websites compare to how bad it is

[paulb]

Thanks for the overall picture 👍, it was good to hear.

[MrXelaim]

How the hell does this only have 172 views?

[FlaviusCalinTofan]

It is very simple:
Big private equity parasites open source and give nothing back.

Giant corporate VS open source.

If WP engine wins, open source is dead.

So Matt is right.

Maybe not the beat course of action, but he is essentially right.

Mat did not ask money for him, or for Automatic as you said, he asked money ( OR HOURS OF WORK ) for wordpress project !!!

Big, big difference.

[katharinagebhart]

Great video! Clear, concise, and straight to the point, despite the massive research — even for non-developers. I’m sure your wife would be very impressed… you know, if she actually understood any of this.

[GeorgeDonnelly]

This actually made me more sympathetic to Matt. Thanks.

[Timewastedonyt]

Wow when I watched the video I was sure you would have 100k+ subscriber and views
The lighting and voice is so professional
Hope you get many more subscribers

[Mempler]

(I havent watched the video yet) One thing i can understand about this whole drama:

The software might be open source, but the keyword "wordpress" and "wp" which is easily associated with "wordpress" is not.

But the drama goes way deeper than that

[Hobbitstomper]

I have yet to find a YouTube video, a YouTube comment, reddit thread or Twitter post where someone agrees that Matt Mullenweg is correct and doing the right thing.

[offwhitemke]

Over 6 minutes in and still not getting to the point of the video?