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Wow, that WP Engine cease and desist is *next level* drama. Looks like Matt Mullenweg texted them to negotiate a fee or he would blow up their spot in his talk at WordCamp. WordPress community, fasten your seatbealts.

PDF Link: wpengine.com/wp-content/upload

It’s giving late-stage silicon valley when the cease and desists are flying back and forth

PDF Link: automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-

Zach Leatherman :11ty:

Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comment

(via @collinsworth)

@cthos super good open ecosystem vibes all around

@zachleat @collinsworth 🤯

We are literally about to launch a client site in 2 days time on WP Engine (though we do manage plugins ourselves in version control)

@zachleat @collinsworth The website launch on WP Engine went fine, though I did have to inform our client of this legal wrangling nonsense 😀

@zachleat @collinsworth yikes — if i were using wordpress i would be absolutely scrambling to migrate away right now.

@zachleat @collinsworth kinda glad I just finished my WP CLI >> 11ty 3.0 beta pipeline.

@zachleat @dogwonder Hmmm maybe but I don't really trust open-source software unless there's an unhinged dictator or an evil corporation behind it. (Ideally both.)

@collinsworth @dogwonder makes sense—apropos of nothing what do you know about Rails

@zachleat @collinsworth @dogwonder Well at least Rails has a Foundation now which can transparently manage any trademark dispu—

Oh.

@jaredwhite @collinsworth @dogwonder no one has an exclusive license on screaming though (IANAL)

@dogwonder @zachleat @collinsworth smart, move! Leaving WordPress for a static site generator is one of the best moves I ever made.

@zachleat @collinsworth
The whole debacle is giving Main Character energy.

@zachleat @collinsworth I feel like there is an eleventy toot in here somewhere.

"See how we don't block our competitors? Very mindful, very demure..."

@zachleat @collinsworth this is why you never give senior staff write priv on the repo ;)

@zachleat @collinsworth It doesn't only appear like that, Matt posted it in the open: wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-

"WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources."

IMO this is not reducing trust in WPEngine but WordPress as a whole and I can't imagine what this mess will lead to...

WordPress News · WP Engine is banned from WordPress.orgPending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.