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They either have some of the best or worst legal counsel; or they just ignore the legal counsel.

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They also have the worst social media team I have ever seen:

https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845121130207535524

This is wild. Surely Matt isn't tweeting from the official account - marketing would not allow that, right?

You mean his subordinate after he gave six months worth of pay for everyone not on his side to leave the company?

"You don't agree with what I'm about to post? Here's a severance check."

It is absolutely Matt tweeting.

Seems to be unavailable to me now, but Archive link here: https://archive.is/WKx4a

What's that in response to? I don't have an account so don't seem to see anything beyond 'Sorry, who are you?'

According to https://bullenweg.com/#matt-uses-wordpress-to-dismiss-founde... , "Laura Elizabeth, founder of WordPress Plugin Client Portal" posted "Guess I can’t contribute to WordPress "

I thought I was reading a tweet from Wendy’s.

Who is she, though?

1. It doesn't matter.

2. It takes one click to find out that she's the "founder of http://Client-Portal.io, a WP plugin for freelancers to use with their clients to keep track of all the deliverables in a centralized portal"

Mullengweg taking a leaf out of Musk PR playbook, clearly.

Some people just think they're above the law. This Matt guy has gone mental.

Yeah, but pretty sure some of the employees/volunteers are in on it or "just following orders."

Yes, no one stopped the co-funder and it's unlikely he did the fork and the change of ownership only by himself. Other people at Automattic are responsible too.

All the sane people left when Matt offered them $30,000 or six months of salary to quit.

Considering how many people stayed, it's clear that they've been brainwashed to think what he's doing is ok.

Or they didn't feel confident about quickly getting a new job in this market. Especially since Automattic is mostly/entirely WFH.

It's pretty unlikely the company will go completely broke any time soon so their jobs are probably fairly safe.

In this job market?

Damn, where's common sense and logic?

One of Automattic’s statements was issued by Neal Katyal, who was Acting Solicitor General of the United States. I would tend towards thinking the client himself may be the problem.

While the situation is much less problematic, I think WordPress management could listen to their lawyers more

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