On 2024-September-20 during the WordCamp US keynote, Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, went nuclear on WP Engine, an Automattic competitor. He did this because WP Engine declined to pay him 8% of their gross (not net) revenue (~$32 million per year). To learn about this crazy🤯 story – including cease and desists, lawsuits, and injunctions – see the Links section below.
In the early 2000s, I was thinking about what blog1 software to use and was paying a lot of attention to the many options (Blogger,2 Movable Type, Wordpress, etc). I eliminated Wordpress as one of my options because of Matt’s spamgate scandal (links below) and some other sleazy things I read about him. This reminds me of this Maya Angelou quote:
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Fortunately, I believed what Matt showed me in the early 2000s and have never used Wordpress and have discouraged others from using it.
This drama has helped me understand these words, phrases, and acronyms:
Many of the articles listed in this section include links to a lot more about this Wordpress drama.
Here are some of the domain names related to this drama.
To learn about blogging, see Infinite Ink’s History of Blogging. ↩︎
In 2003, I wrote about why I chose Blogger in Deflexion.com’s Trying out Blogger. ↩︎
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