He can’t. Mullenweg is just having a really bad, prolonged meltdown over a hosting company making (morally questionable, but legally clear) money and threatening to burn it all down.
It’s kinda funny because although I enjoy selfhosting, I wasn’t going to self-host wordpress until I saw how ridiculous the prices are through Wordpress.com for any actual functionality. I’ve got a decent VPS and have paid for a couple of key (to me) “premium” 3rd-party plugins and it’s still costing far less than it would have hosting it all through Wordpress.com. Their pricing seems frankly astronomical to me (or did when I was making my decision.)
He can’t. Mullenweg is just having a really bad, prolonged meltdown over a hosting company making (morally questionable, but legally clear) money and threatening to burn it all down.
It’s kinda funny because although I enjoy selfhosting, I wasn’t going to self-host wordpress until I saw how ridiculous the prices are through Wordpress.com for any actual functionality. I’ve got a decent VPS and have paid for a couple of key (to me) “premium” 3rd-party plugins and it’s still costing far less than it would have hosting it all through Wordpress.com. Their pricing seems frankly astronomical to me (or did when I was making my decision.)
I did dig up this article which has helped me to understand the situation a bit better FWIW: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine