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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by reticulates on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:54PM (#49635746)
Firing the board is the least Matt-like option. He has absolute control and ownership over the WordPress project, I think it is more likely that he starts his own Automattic splinter company and removes Automattic from the WordPress project. I’d guess he is already filing incorporation docs for Antimatter Inc. or some other Matt themed name.
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by crabmusket on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:25AM (#49638393)
Laundermatt?
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by thih9 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:32AM (#49641371)
Checkmatte?

But seriously if I had to recommend something, not escalating seems best for everyone involved.

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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by pluc on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:34AM (#49641954)
Aftermatt
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by everfrustrated on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:51PM (#49647719)
New-mattic (pneumatic)?
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by thih9 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:47PM (#49649962)
Intimatte - non sequitur.
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by michelb on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:59PM (#49664502)
Matthatter
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by ChallengeEup237 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:02AM (#49640621)
Automattic has exclusive commercial rights to the WordPress trademark. That was the self-dealing deal he made when he "gave" the trademark to the WordPress Foundation. He can start a new commercial WP company, but it won't have that trademark so would be limited in the same ways he was trying to force on WP Engine etc.
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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' by burnte on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:23AM (#49644205)
> He has absolute control and ownership over the WordPress project

The only thing he has that can't be moved or recreated are the trademarks. In an extremely short span of time everyone went from Xfree for their X server to Xorg, and Xfree limped along for a bit before falling over. This is the beauty of open source.

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