• rtxn@lemmy.world
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      The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

      • Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
      • Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
      • Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
      • Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
      • Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.