> “I would be very, very interested in Mozilla,” Mullenweg said.<p>Nice. I hope if Mozilla is ever in jeopardy of losing its independence, Mullenweg can scrap together whatever it will cost to buy and fix them. Seems like the right person to look after them.
Start by denouncing AMP.[1] WordPress has been a major supporter.<p>[1] <a href="https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-trust-in-google-led-initiatives" rel="nofollow">https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-...</a>
The marketing machine around Matt, WP.com, and OSS is just incredible. Automattic has taken nearly a BILLION dollars in VC money (including 300m most recently from Salesforce) to essentially execute a hostile takeover of open of source WordPress. Automattic forced their rewrite of WordPress (a Squarespace clone written in React) on the community and it has been a disaster, leading to many resignations of long-time contributors and their replacement with paid Automattic employees: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/reviews/" rel="nofollow">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/reviews/</a><p>Automattic/WordPress is like any other VC-backed venture looking for their exit, except this one is doing off the back of a once-vibrant OSS community. The open source connection is a fairy tale (and apparently powerful marketing tool). They will not save the Internet.<p><a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automattic" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automattic</a>
This might be the tl;dr quote:<p>> And then he offered the closest thing you’ll find to a Unified Theory of Matt Mullenweg. “As more and more of our lives start to be run and dictated by the technology we use, it's a human right to be able to see how that technology works and modify it. It’s as key to freedom as freedom of speech or freedom of religion. So that is what I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting for.”<p>Contrast with this link also (currently) on the HN front page: <a href="https://gavinhoward.com/2021/12/is-it-even-worth-working-on-foss-anymore/" rel="nofollow">https://gavinhoward.com/2021/12/is-it-even-worth-working-on-...</a>