What a choice, and what poor timing.

Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.

Nothing has broken. Perhaps WP Engine should have consider that before suing us.

I'd normally never say something like this, but: seek therapy, man. Seriously. This is not normal. It will end badly for so many people, including yourself. It may not be too late.

Guy who started a fight tells target to stop hitting themselves

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There won't be a Wordpress community left if you continue as you have. What does the board think of your actions?

You are a disgrace to the open source community.

I hope the lawsuit serves as a lesson to you.

I don't think punishing people for suing you typically plays well in court. Especially not if you, you know, publicly announce that's what you're doing.

This was my reaction as well. This sounded like tortious interference before, but to blatantly announce that he’s trying to kill someone else’s business, for exercising their legal rights no less, sounds like a summary judgement waiting to happen.

There is no dispute over the facts here if Matt is just going to announce his intents.

I cannot imagine his rage when not only does WPE not have to pay him, but now he’s paying them.

Please proceed, governor.

What a 5 year old kid you are Matt. Good that the community can now see through it.

Business is war, I get it. But you chose to make innocent bystanders (your users) life difficult and you crossed a line by stealing code with an excuse that everyone sees through. This looks now more and more of a personal vendetta.

Can't wait for Matt to read this in a deposition. At this point, the dude seems to be intent on running up the highest tab possible.

These are clearly the actions of someone who is sure they'll win the lawsuit.

(not)

Trust is what has been broken.

Childish.

There must be a timeline in which this is de-escalated, compromises are being made and everyone's happy.

In your perspective - what does it look like? What could be done to go the opposite way and keep going?

Also, I'm surprised to see people only siding with WP Engine here. Usually the discussions here are much more balanced.. What do you think could be the reason for it?

The pro version of the plugin is a separate install, this just rips out the upgrade notices.

AFAIK the free version never included “pro features” in the first place

So they forked some open source software and "hacked it up" to remove notices from the original creators? Fascinating.

Yup, removing post revisions which I think is single line change is hacking it up when WP Engine does it, but this is totally okay apparently.