Reliable sources claim that Matt Mullenweg is being sacked from Automattic.
WordPress.org being Matt's "personal website", running on the company's infrastructure and wp-admin on self hosted sites depending on that domain name being reachable to work at all, this could have far reaching consequences.
Replying to @alda@topspicy.social
I expect there's going to be more of who-owns-what in the coming days.
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This is what "forced to resign" usually looks like on paper.
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Further reports suggest that Mary Hubbard has announced that she is staying as the "executive director of WordPress" (which is in administrative sense MMs personal website) and that MM is still leading the WordPress project.
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@alda @404mediaco woah hot damn
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@alda @404mediaco Mullenweg probably belongs on that weird guys of foss list
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@northernscrub @404mediaco oh 110%. But it's also right on the nose that he wasn't invited.
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@alda I do not envy whoever has to untangle that ball of ownership yarn.
Replying to @joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech
@joepie91 imagine the back taxes some companies would strictly speaking need to pay because their contributions weren't to a non-profit but someone's personal hobby.
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@alda oh god I hadn't even thought about that part
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@alda 🍿
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@alda According to @404mediaco he was put on Paid Leave.
Replying to @phillycodehound@indieweb.social
@phillycodehound @404mediaco when you are a government official or one of the co-foundes, this is the offer you get when you're forced to resign. Matt just isn't taking the hint.
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@phillycodehound @404mediaco Also my original post was based on rumours. I saw the 404 post minutes later.
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@alda @phillycodehound @404mediaco Yea regardless this is a fall from grace.
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@alda oh nooooo!!
anyway
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Replying to @lispi314@udongein.xyz
@lispi314 it's his dead-man switch. Nothing works unless he approves of it personally and it shows.
WP and the systems run by Automattic have been limited for literal decades because has a say in any technical decision despite allegedly not learning anything new since 2005.
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@lispi314 As WordPress.org is still Matt's personal website and he's still leading the project, this requires a fork.
And a fork is impossible because the project's structure is designed with that in mind.
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@lispi314 a CMS with write access to itself is the Windows 95 security model after all.
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