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.
It’s giving late-stage silicon valley when the cease and desists are flying back and forth
PDF Link: https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-cease-and-desist.pdf
Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/
(via @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
@simonrjones @collinsworth whew, that must be a relief!