JKPress
In a post on wordpress.org, Mullenweg talks about forks of WordPress and how he finds them great. Now, some people are starting a new WP fork and want to scale it up with a non-profit structure behind it.
Matt also thinks this is great – or so he claims; but not without already taking jabs in the first part of the text, subtly calling the people involved incompetent.
Ultimately, he wants to "push the project forward" and is therefore locking the developers' accounts of the people involved:
To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts of Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort.
Is this still something like poisoned praise? Is there a corresponding term for that? Mullenweg seems more and more like a toxic boss. I’m sure exciting new projects will emerge from this whole situation. But I worry about all the other tools also belonging to Automattic, like Pocket Casts, for example.
Mullenweg seems to be tearing down an entire technical ecosystem with a lot of momentum and stubborn behavior right now.
