Thanks to Matt Mullenweg, this is the way WordPress ends: not with a bang but a whimper.
another pretty meaty article on mullenweg, moreso about his treatment of employees and ex-employees.
Again, I’m talking about this to show a pattern of behavior. Mullenweg’s abuse of power, his need for control, his paranoia, his oversized sense of importance and victimhood – none of that is new.
Matt Mullenweg is a man in dire need of consequences. Not just on behalf of his company and employees, who, thanks to Mullenweg, have been dealt a trust and reputational blow from which I’m genuinely unsure they can recover. Not just for members of the WordPress community, many of whom have built their livelihoods around what appears to have been an empty promise told purely for Mullenweg’s enrichment.
He desperately needs consequences, because I don’t think he’s capable of voluntarily course-correcting at this point.