WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring user groups
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As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout

At this point, Matt has to go. Open source is open source. It’s that simple. WP Engine should donate more, but capitalism is all about exploitation and that’s what they were doing. That’s not on WordPress to right as a wrong. When they were selling free tier users’ content to LLMs, I didn’t see them offering to pay 8% forward to users.