Tweets From Rob Clark  ## Metadata - Author: [[@robclark on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Rob Clark - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/robclark ## Document Notes ## Highlights - @tonyzeoli @photomatt @WordPress @wpengine And if I did decide to steal someone else’s plugin, I wouldn’t have done it in a way that broke thousands of sites on auto update. At least do shady things competently. Dear god. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/robclark/status/1861958059095974100)) - First off, I would have NOT treated the developers that helped grow my ecosystem as collateral damage by suddenly cutting off plugin updates, thus making it harder to patch vulnerable code, after those developers spent years assuring corporate and government clients that Wordpress was a safe, secure platform. Then, I wouldn’t have posted a csv containing the URLs of their staging and dev environments. I WOULD have either found a better way to pressure WPEngine or found a route in court, instead of claiming myself to be an arbiter of open source ideals and painting oss as an unhinged, risk-filled minefield for the outside world to see. I sided with some of his initial arguments. My problem is that he made them actionable as if he were a petulant child. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/robclark/status/1861957455954977216))