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Look, I was writting a long post about what happened yesterday on the WordPress scene but... fuck it. I'm going to play Dwarf Fortress instead. Let me just say I hope the WordPress community realize that Matt Mullenweg using his keynote on WordCamp US to attack WPEngine for "caring more about profit than what they care about open source" is not about this heroic figure defending Open Source against corporate leechers.

WPEngine contributes to open source as much as most of other similar-sized hosting companies in the world (Actually, they were top-tier sponsors of the same conference Matt used to tell the thousands of attendees that they should all cancel their WPEngine accounts). Also, WPEngine and WordPress.com (Matt's company flagship) are the biggest players in their particular market niche (Managed WordPress hosting). And last year, for the first time ever, WPEngine made more money than wp.com, making them the biggest fish in their pond.

So no, this was not Matt being all sanctimonious about open source. It's just, once again, a businessman abusing his position of privilege on an open source community to slander the most direct competitor of his company, who has recently became the dominant player in the market.