If Microsoft took over an existing GitHub repo, would those values be the same?

The correct information is that your employer created the security problem as part of their shakedown attempt. They then banned the WP Engine developers from Wordpress so that they couldn't update the plugin. Now they've forked the plugin, removed the commercial upgrade, and renamed it.

I'm not sure where values come into it. I'd be ashamed to work there.

You're values are doing open source dirty.

What values are those, exactly?

US dollar values deposited into the accounts every paycheck, I assume.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair (probably, may be apocryphal)

Automattic is an open source company, albeit one controlled by a melodrama villain.

Seven hours have passed without you being able to name one (1) of those values. Such integrity!

Some people have better things to do with their life than win internet arguments, man.

Oh wow we are still saying that in 2024, huh?

For sure dude, the guy who came here to defend the values of his own and his megalomaniac employer on a weekend evening is probably much too busy to name one. That tracks.