Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram explores the recent controversy surrounding Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, and his actions against the hosting company WP Engine. Mullenweg, who controls the nonprofit wordpress.org and leads the for-profit Automattic, appears to be leveraging his positions to extract payments from WP Engine, a competitor to Automattic's services. While Mullenweg claims to be protecting the open-source WordPress community, his tactics, including threats and cutting off WP Engine's access, raise concerns about conflicts of interest. Ingram argues that Mullenweg's behavior undermines the spirit of open source and drags the WordPress ecosystem into a legal quagmire, potentially damaging its credibility.