Tweets From Gergely Orosz ![rw-book-cover](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/673095429748350976/ei5eeouV.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[@GergelyOrosz on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Gergely Orosz - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz ## Document Notes ## Highlights - So this is the future of WordPress. Automattic - the entity controlling Wordpress .org and the WP trademark - can take over *any* plugin that it wants, when they want, and how they want. Automattic is burning the principles of open source for their own profit. A sad, new era. https://t.co/UeBVnN8E2Q ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1845208249143800030)) - Automattic - the creator of WordPress, a company raising $950M in VC funding - took a paid WordPress plugin built and owned by another dev and re-published it, making it free. If you have a business selling a paid WP plugin: Automattic can null it, anytime. Another new low. https://t.co/zomZPW2Zft ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1860965378123239921)) - The creator and biggest contributor of WordPress - Automattic - announced it is scaling back its core contributions massively, to about 45 hours/week. They blame it on a lawsuit filed by competitor WP Engine. The situation is clear enough: the WordPress ecosystem in turmoil. https://t.co/kHu0xxuyDp ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gg6a2v5WkAAtXUX.jpg) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1877608364693197187)) - Building a profitable company as a commercial open source one with a permissive license feels more challenging these days. The company needs to make money: which it usually does by selling a managed version of the software. But here’s the catch: (cont’d) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1887793257343590408)) - What we thought happened: giving up control of a trademark. What really happened: Automattic turned over all rights to the WordPress marks to the Foundation and then simultaneously had the WordPress Foundation license the commercial rights to the marks back to Automattic. https://t.co/uj9QRkuLo9 ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjA2PPnXgAAYPMJ.jpg) ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjA2vTkXcAEtLV1.jpg) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1887068448653558125))