there’s three key entities at play: WPorg, Automattic, and WPEngine. Automattic and WPorg have a porous boundary between them, insofar as employees of the for-profit company do work for the open source nonprofit and leadership overlaps. Automattic tried to make WPEngine pay tithe to them. Went badly

specifically negotiations between the companies broke down and this was basically communicated to the world by WPorg blocking WPEngine’s hosted customers from using WPorg resources for plugin repos/updates, so a few million people’s shit got rocked. Automatt says this is good actually, he’s laughing