Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by posterman on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:55AM
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Since when did relaying employee experience constitute an existential threat to a businesses ability to operate? This forum is littered with people who engage in "threats" as a mode of business every single day.
Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by jeltz on Friday October 04, 2024 @06:23AM
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When you demand money in return for not relaying those experiences? That is when it becomes extortion.
Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by posterman on Friday October 04, 2024 @08:22AM
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Thats a reductive read. I thought this forum was supposed to encourage a higher minded discourse?
Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl...
by lolinder on Friday October 04, 2024 @02:28PM
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Seriously, read the complaint before commenting. What the parent says isn't "a reductive read", it's literally what WP Engine is alleging (with extensive documentation) and Matt is pointedly not denying.
Read the complaint before commenting any further, please.
Here are some of the texts it says Matt sent:
> I have 14 slides so far, working title for the talk: "How Private Equity can Hollow out and Destroy Open Source Communities, a Story in 4 Parts."
> I've got quotes from current and former employees, some may even stand up and speak as well.
There's the gasoline and matches. And then, while he's on stage:
> I'm literally waiting for them to finish the raffle so my talk can start, I can make it just a Q&A about WordPress very easily
I'm isolation this sounds very much like "nice community goodwill you have there... would be a shame if anything were to happen to it." In the context of the other texts and phone calls WPE cites it sounds more like an explicit threat with no subtly.