Automattic Tries To Cripple WordCamp’s With Restrictive New Guidelines

Just as we thought that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, might finally be softening on its no one can make money from WordPress except us stance, comes news today on an attempt to cripple the thriving "Wordcamp" ... continue

Boo-Hoo: Mullenweg calls foul while continuing to ignore WordPress Automattic Conflict of Interest

WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has called foul today while dodging issues on the ongoing conflict of interest between his involvement at Automattic and WordPress. Several sites, including this one, published stories today suggesting that WordPress.com ... continue

A Very WordPress World

Since 2003, an open source, Internet-oriented software package has done what is exceedingly rare within that community:  becoming not only immensely popular and wildly loved, but also profitable.  Matt Mullenweg has managed to turn what began as ... continue

More Hypocrisy from Mullenweg and WordPress with new themes jihad

WordPress has removed over 200 themes from the WordPress theme directory for the crime of the themes linking back to the sites and people that created them. The jihad against themes started last year with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg ... continue