That's uncharitable. Mullenweg has been pretty good for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole, and he's just going after one particular company (arguably one particular board member of such company, the SilverLake guy), that he now sees as parasitical to the ecosystem.
Musk steered a social-networking giant into american-far-right territory for his own vanity, retweets baseless and dangerous conspiracy theories, and supports all sorts of terrible campaigns.
> That's uncharitable. Mullenweg has been pretty good for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole, and he's just going after one particular company
This is actually far from Matt's first rodeo:
He described Movable Type as "desperate and dirty players" for having a section in their docs on how to migrate WordPress content into a Movable Type blog.
When Envato started allowing people to publish themes they had created with a proprietary license, he retaliated by banning any developer on the Envato platform from speaking at any WordPress-related event (sound familiar to punishing the users for a disagreement with a platform?)
Wix was accused by Matt of using WP's mobile text editor in violation of the GPL. Wix showed that they had actually adhered to the license terms, and then forker their own version under the MIT license.
> one particular company (arguably one particular board member of such company, the SilverLake guy), that he now sees as parasitical to the ecosystem.
He went after GoDaddy in 2022 for the same reason, to the same extent.
Interestingly, for someone who has such hatred for Private Equity as "leeches and freeloaders and parasites upon open source software and communities", the ONLY other active member of the WordPress Foundation board (than Matt) is the Managing Partner of a Private Equity firm that Matt himself appointed.
Never said they weren't, but was responding to your comment about him being good for FOSS and this just being a first instance of a straw breaking the camel's back and causing him to lash out.
He lashes out quite regularly. There are other instances too, including him previously rewriting agreements after attacking people.
Musk steered a social-networking giant into american-far-right territory for his own vanity, retweets baseless and dangerous conspiracy theories, and supports all sorts of terrible campaigns.
The ballparks are very different.