Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'

Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by 0xDEADBEEFCAFE on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:33PM (#49635526)

So problem solved? My only criticism is that 1) Mr. Mullenweg should have held tighter controls over the IP and 2) the direction to the community that they are encouraged to use "WP" as a prefix for their business names and products was ultimately a bad one leading to this mess..

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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by nixosbestos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:47PM (#49635690)

Matt, ... just log out and take a break.

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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by garbagepatch on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:39AM (#49638471)

Matt, you shouldn't have picked a FLOSS license if you didn't intend for the software to be FLOSS in the first place.

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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by sehansen on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:57AM (#49642994)

If they'd done those two things Wordpress would probably have been far less successful. Which certainly is a way of making WP Engine not even want to do what they did. Heck, they would probably not even exist.

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