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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be ‘fantastic’
WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Wednesday, said he's not worried that the recent
The Automattic CEO also suggested that rival WP Engine essentially had already forked the software because the version they run is “very, very different” from what the WordPress core is today. The interview came amid a heated legal dispute with the WordPress hosting provider WP Engine, which has upset the open source community, and led to the departure of over 150 Automattic employees who disagree with Mullenweg’s new direction. This is not the first time Mullenweg has suggested a fork could be a solution to the ongoing debate around the future of WordPress.
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