A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the new and growing fight between Automattic/Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine.
Back then, the two were mainly trading words, and dueling cease and desist letters. However, the scope seems to be continuing to expand, including WP Engine filing an actual lawsuit against Matt Mullenweg and Automattic.
This news post is about what I think to be one of the most dramatic moves in the entire thing:
On the weekend of October 12th, Matt Mullenweg and his team made the dramatic move of taking over the Advanced Custom Fields plugin (ACF) from Delicious Brains, a company that was acquired by WP Engine a couple of years ago.
This is ridiculous. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes but they need to work it out. It hurts the WordPress image. We don’t need “Jerry Springer Show: WordPress Edition”.
Its a greed. Matt wanted the WPEngine to pay him tens of millions to continue to use the WordPress Core for their WPEngine’s Hosting and ACF subscription.
Guess, who would become the richest person in the world, if every WordPress website would bring Matt only one dollar a year? He knows it and he wants it.