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Just as an FYI: this is a really really bad look from the outside. Your CEO's comments and the new trademark policy sound borderline deranged, and this step of banning them dangerously destabilizes the ecosystem.

WP Engine may be just as bad as you say, but if so they just successfully baited you into making yourselves look like the bad guys.

Yes - I don’t use WP and have no experience with either of those companies but everything I’ve heard about this has been people looking into alternatives because this raises the question of whether it’s motivated by a desire to boost revenue and merely the first step in the process.

What are the issues? Nothing publicly articulated so far appears to have breached any licensing terms or trademark law.

If there are issues then Matt would do well to clearly articulate the problem.

Why does your team think that leveraging resources of the nonprofit is an appropriate response to conflict?

Therein lies the problem. Why is a8c even involved? This is a WordPress Foundation problem.

OK. But do you really think this public bullying abuse of power from your increasingly unstable-sounding CEO is going to play out well? Good luck I guess.