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

this also tied into whether WPEngine unfairly used the WP trademark. So Automatt won’t stop talking on podcasts, on HN, on blogs about how right he is and how the other side is lying, and releasing details that make him look genuinely incapable of being an open source maintainer OR ceo