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What the heck is going on with WordPress?

If you are even remotely connected to the WordPress community, and unless you have been living under a rock, or off the grid, you know that since the closing keynote of WordCamp US last week, ther…

In a nutshell, here’s how I’d resume the situation: a company in the WordPress space has been behaving as a predatory member of the community, focusing exclusively on extracting value from the project, while contributing almost nothing that doesn’t carry a short-term return on investment. So here’s my question: what do you think of a company that, with close to half a billion dollars in revenue, and more than a thousand staff, barely contributes the equivalent of one full-time employee to the project on which it has built the entirety of its value? Listening to those WordPress users, Matt re-established access to WordPress.org for a time in the hope that it will suffice to that company to offer a solution, or to their customers to migrate elsewhere (there are so many hosts of great quality and character out there).

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