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Genuine question:

Would that be wrong? What makes him not "the WordPress guy"?

Legal stuff aside I mean. Are there other people that put in significant amounts of work that he is not giving credit to/downplaying their contributions or similar?

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He deserves a lot of credit for shepherding WordPress to where it's at. But like most open source projects, WordPress has become so successful in large part because of his formal and informal commitments to the open source community about how it will be managed. Guido van Rossum spent much of his tenure as the Python BDFL as an employee of Google, but it would have been disastrous for Python if he had gotten on stage at PyCon and declared that anyone who cares about Python had better stop using Bing.

That doesn't really answer my question.

Sooo.. no?

This, genuinely, is incredible to me. Does really no one on this godforsaken platform have a single name they can drop?

Always this meta diversion.

If Matt is truly the bad guy here, then the good guys absolutely suck at making a convincing argument. Which would not be impossible, but dumb nonetheless.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Why would I drop a name? My point doesn't have to do with anyone's name.

> Are there other people that put in significant amounts of work that he is not giving credit to/downplaying their contributions or similar?

If you're looking for an answer to this question as stated, then I agree with you the answer is no. It's unrelated to what I'm talking about, which is why I didn't answer it the first time.

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