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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:35:48 JST silverwizard

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   • Erik Uden 🍑
   @ErikUden Mullenweg's flaw is that he's being an egotistical maniac and showing all the flaws in the system he built. Instead of rallying a community, he's burning it down. And it *sucks*. With any self reflection he would be the uncomplicated hero.
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:35:49 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     There are no winners in war. Fireship described both sides as “the petty megalomaniac CEO, who is willing to burn down his entire community to prove a point” (Automattic/Mullenweg) VS. “the parasitic freeloading private equity firm, who's only guiding principle is financial gain” (SilverLake/WPEngine).

     ...and you know what? I can understand wanting to prove a point

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:35:50 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     WP Engine does not contribute enough to the open source code they're making hundreds of millions of dollars a year on, and it's time for open source to fight back. He should've talked to a lawyer before making statements that WPEngine may call “slanderous”, but the fact he even offered a 300k USD severance package to any employee wanting to leave WordPress.com, because things could get more stressful in the coming time, is wild. What boss does that? It's very nice and thoughtful for the people who work under him.

     I can't really hate the guy for speaking what we're all thinking.

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:35:52 JST Erik Uden 🍑

     It's controversial take hour, so I must say that I believe Matt Mullenweg did nothing wrong.