The recent interview that Matt Mullenweg did with The Verge highlighted his focus on WP Engine having not donated to the WordPress Foundation. It is an odd focus since the WordPress Foundation does almost nothing and he hasn’t explained why it would need more money. There is also an issue that the foundation appears to largely operate as an arm of Matt Mullenweg’s for-profit company, Automattic. That is the entity he has been trying to extort WP Engine through.
As we noted before, the foundation’s blog is being written exclusively by Automattic employees. Those employees claim that they are spending 40 hours a week working on WordPress, which is separate from the WordPress Foundation. They are not alone in that. [Read more]