WordPress powers about 41% of the internet. It took Matt Mullenweg twenty years to build that. It took him about ninety days in 2024 to lose the trust of the community he built it with — the agencies, plugin developers, hosts, and translators who bet their businesses on the update button still working next Friday. This is the full timeline: how a blog fork in 2003 became a movement, how Automattic became a company, how WP Engine became the target, and how one keynote at WordCamp US turned into cease and desists, lawsuits, forked plugins, mass resignations, and a preliminary injunction. And it’s the story of a pattern that keeps repeating in open source — from Redis to Terraform to Elasticsearch — where the same loop plays out with a different logo every time.
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⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 A 90-Day Fall From Trust
00:53 How WordPress Won the Web (2003)
05:44 The Automattic Movement
09:03 One Man, Three Power Centers
11:44 WP Engine and Private Equity
14:44 The GoDaddy Precedent
17:36 WordCamp US 2024: The Break
22:26 Cease and Desist Wars
25:35 Fighting Their Own Community
28:04 The Court Steps In
30:00 The Open Source Loop
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