October 16, 2024
All is not well in the WordPress community.
For the last several weeks, Matt Mullenweg, an entrepreneur who developed the hugely popular free and open source content management system and founded Automattic – which sells premium WordPress.com services – has seemingly been waging a war against WP Engine, a hosting platform for WordPress websites.
The dispute initially hinged on allegations Mullenweg made that WP Engine leeched off WordPress by raising significant amounts in funding thanks to the work done for free by open-source contributors to WordPress. To compensate, Automattic has asked for 8% of WP Engine’s monthly revenue in perpetuity.
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October 16, 2024
