(I tried running a diff on the current text v.s. the Internet Archive copy from 4th November and unless I made a mistake there have been no updates.)
One of the things about open source is people use it, and they might even compete against your company. If you can't handle that you shouldn't open source your code. Matt is doing far more damage to Wordpress and open source in general than anything WPEngine has done.
Is WP Engine "evil" and predatory? Maybe, possibly. I haven't seen any concrete evidence either way. Is Automattic evil and predatory? Absolutely! We've seen plenty of evidence of that, and it is very clear that they can't be trusted with Wordpress.
> Matt blocked WP Engine’s convenient access to resources he was under no obligation to provide such as the WordPress.org plugin directory
Just like WPEngine was under no obligation to pay towards Automattic.
I didn't think things could get more petty. It's infuriating and gives open source a bad name. "It's open untill we say so"
I'm not sure anybody cares. Really. Wordpress was relevant like 20 years ago. I will probably get downvoted into oblivion by the community of PHP enjoyers that still exist, and good for you guys, I love that you love Wordpress so much. I don't think any of this will change PHP or Wordpress or the thousands of sites that use it. Matt is spending political capital at an unrecoverable rate and the courts are not going to side with him here, I think.
In any case, many sites include Google Analytics, so Google gets amplified in the packet metrics. Plus, PHP and WordPress are very different beasts. The PHP community has modernized on some standards that are pretty good (most of the time) while WordPress is stuck in 2008.
