159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO's fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch
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The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg's direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.

The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg’s direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.

    • BrikoXOPEnglish
      10•1 month ago

      Is it though? While Matt Mullenweg is a douche, he wasn’t wrong about WP Engine contributing nothing to open source WordPress development.

      • @damnthefilibuster
        1•1 month ago

        There’s other stuff that Matt has said and done that isn’t sitting well with me. Plus, with the purchase of Day One, in one sense, they’ve confirmed its longevity. But in another sense, it’s consolidated power into the hands of a person who is becoming problematic.

        Plus, as someone else said (I’ll look for the source), this WP Engine stuff could have been better communicated by Matt.

    • lemmyngEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      Only if both the original and fork engage in a battle to the death and simultaneously wipe each other out.

    • @RedditWanderer
      4•1 month ago

      He is offering a severance well beyond what he needs to for anyone that wants to go. That’s not even close to what Elon did.

      On top of that, they are going to rehire. This isn’t a cull of the business because it’s losing money.