I somehow missed this one. I remember way back when this all started, before the ACF takeover, I expressed frustration online with his behaviour and what I thought it meant for WordPress. An old friend, or at least I thought, formerly from Automattic and my old Vancouver days, basically told me I was way off and that Matt was a good guy and saving open source or something to that effect. Not long after he said I had one more response where I could say anything, and then he was blocking me forever, which he did. And since that time we’ve had the ACF takeover, the WPE tracker, the preliminary injunction, all the friendly tweets like “sorry, who are you?” The block fest of key contributors. The recent invitations for core contributors to go contribute somewhere else. The board takeover. The pineapple on pizza box. The list goes on and one, and we aren’t even at trial yet. It still boggles my mind that this person represents one of the most important open source projects in history, and the contempt he seems to show for so many people and organizations, like sponsors here, that all helped make it possible. It’s all sad and tragic really. I used to look at contributing to this project as something to be proud of. Now it seems more akin to exploitation if I’m honest. The countless people who donated time and effort to what ended up being just Matt’s site, the sponsors that Matt doesn’t seem to care too much about, and all core contributors mostly just tossed aside like what happened the other day in the accessibility group. It all seems like such wasted effort now.