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WordPress retaliation impacts community
[LWN subscriber-only content] It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WP Engine, but the WordPress community at large is already the loser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and the WordPress.org infrastructure, to punish WP Engine and remove some dissenting contributors from discussion channels.
Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and the WordPress.org infrastructure, to punish WP Engine and remove some dissenting contributors from discussion channels. John Blackbourn, the WordPress core security team lead, said that Automattic had breached the Intigriti Code of Conduct by " irresponsibly announcing" the vulnerability publicly. The fields API project on GitHub has been archived with a goodbye notice that states that it pains him to stop but that he is " done making excuses for Matt's actions and will not associate myself with core any longer".
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