A fundamental issue with WordPress that has long existed, but hasn’t gotten the level of attention is deserved, is the inherent conflict of interest in Matt Mullenweg’s various roles. He isn’t alone in that. The Executive Director of WordPress “also leads Automattic‘s open source division.” Matt Mullenweg, of course, put that person in the role of Executive Director despite the obvious conflict of interest. Despite her obvious conflict of interest, she was going to produce a conflict of interest policy for WordPress that never was released. A code of ethics was also never released.
Yesterday, someone posted a link to our post about that on the WordPress Subreddit, /r/wordpress/, which was quickly deleted: [Read more]
