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As a career WordPress developer, I fully support WordPress’s stance on this issue. It’s unreasonable for a company to siphon resources from a non-profit to fuel their own hosting business.
For smaller companies, lacking the ability to manage their own updates or CI/CD processes is understandable. But WPEngine is a large organization—they have the resources and capacity to handle these issues in-house. They could have easily avoided this situation without turning it into a turf war.
Edit: I see the WPEngine fans have arrived. Feel free to downvote, but that doesn’t make you right!
While WP Engine is in the wrong ethically, it doesn't make what Matt is doing right.
The issue is that Matt is showing that he can impose any rules he wants on anyone who he doesn't agree with. It's an authoritarian behavior that concerns everyone, not just WP Engine.
He did all of this during the last day of a conference.
So rather than inspiring the WordPress community to push forward and do good things, he spent an hour just antagonizing and shaming companies that literally sponsored the conference.
This is like when Elon Musk cursed out advertisers on Twitter.
Sponsoring a conference is just buying an ad, not actually supporting anything