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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans

Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.

Reed, it’s worth noting, is president and CEO of a newly established non-profit called the WP Community Collective, which is setting out to serve as a “neutral home for collaboration, contribution, and resources” around WordPress and the broader open source ecosystem. If they create something that’s awesome, we may even merge it back into WordPress, that ability for code and ideas to freely flow between projects is part of what makes open source such an engine for innovation.” Prior to joining TechCrunch in June 2022, Paul had gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for The Next Web (now owned by the Financial Times) and VentureBeat.

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