The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg’s direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.
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Can we call that “going full Elon” yet?
He is offering a severance well beyond what he needs to for anyone that wants to go. That’s not even close to what Elon did.
On top of that, they are going to rehire. This isn’t a cull of the business because it’s losing money.
If a fork of WordPress comes out of this, all the better!
Is it though? While Matt Mullenweg is a douche, he wasn’t wrong about WP Engine contributing nothing to open source WordPress development.
Only if both the original and fork engage in a battle to the death and simultaneously wipe each other out.
