"It’s disappointing to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive [sic] as WP Engine,"
No mention at all of the thousands of hours from contributors that enabled him to build wordpress, wordpress.com and therefore automattic.com
Thousands of hours, you say. Automattic says it pays for some 200k hours per year.
The irony, and downright gall of this statement, for those who have not been following: this entire spat began because he personally was upset that WP Engine was not providing free labor to his fake non-profit.