While Matt comes looking "not good" and his apparent impulsiveness and "less than optimal" communication skills are doing more damage than good, I find it "interesting" most of the people attacking him either choose to ignore of gloss over the absolute trash WPEngine management people are.
It's rich coming from people demanding a high standard for Matt but not for the WPEngine people.
In the end all of it will get "solved" because there's way too much money in this to go any other way.
As Danny Glover famously said: "I'm too old for this shit"
If you are completely fine with WPEngine's commercial practices, trademark violations in their marketing materials ( like it or not ) and moral OK for them not picking up part of the bill of what they consume ( talking about infra resources, not even talking about code ), then.. why the f** are you so bothered by an unhinged rant from some guy? It's GPL after all.. Don't you see the irony? or you just want to see it because Matt is kind of an unlikable dbag? Is that the level of depth we are at when cheerleading for this stuff?
How are you allowed to tell me if that's an honest question or not? Do I have some hidden WP Engine shill comments in my history or something? Can you read my mind?
I don't have a strong opinion on WP Engine's behavior, because I'm not convinced by Matt's arguments. I do have an opinion on Matt's behavior though. I think it's unhinged.
Feel free to respond but I'm done with this conversation, given how unpleasant I feel it's going to be given the incredibly uncharitable tone in your response. I recommend taking a walk or something.
It's rich coming from people demanding a high standard for Matt but not for the WPEngine people.
In the end all of it will get "solved" because there's way too much money in this to go any other way.
As Danny Glover famously said: "I'm too old for this shit"