On Sunday, the head of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, used the blog of WordPress to attack a competitor of his Company Automattic. That would seem like a conflict of interest, but as we noted last week, WordPress never released the conflict of interest policy they announced was coming back in 2021 and 2022. That followed on his attack on them at WordCamp US and on his personal blog. One point of contention was covered this way on yet another Matt Mullenweg outlet, the WP Tavern:
To make his point, Mullenweg compared the Five For the Future contributions from Automattic and WP Engine, a competitor of similar size. Automattic contributes 3,786 hours per week, while WP Engine contributes just 47. [Read more]