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To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good


Longtime WordPress contributors ask: “Where are the adults in the room?”

Mullenweg repeated the sentiment publicly on Friday: “I’m disgusted and sickened by being legally forced to provide free labor and services to @wpengine, a dangerous precedent that should chill every open source maintainer,” he wrote on X. “When I initially saw it I assumed my friend was trolling me but yeah it’s there and has a value attribute filled out, which leaves me suspicious that he’s gonna use it as a proxy for the previous field,” she told me. “They highlight concerns about ‘double standards,’ including Mullenweg’s lack of accountability under the project’s Code of Conduct and the executive director’s direct employment by Automattic.”

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