alt Hacker NewsHe got tired of WPEngine not contributing back to wordpress, so he made it his mission to try and get them to pitch in.
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That's why, at a conference fully paid for by WPEngine, he announced that WPEngine had never paid for anything.
He had a perfectly good example of how to do that productively. His friend Dries Buytaert over in Drupal land has had a commit credit system going for years that has worked well enough that people are constantly trying to game it. Instead he went for the jugular. I really don’t think he’s okay.
WordPress is free software. Its users are under no obligation to contribute to its development, or to give money to Automattic.
Does WPEngine have any obligation to contribute back? How is WordPress licensed?
Didn't he start that campaign at a conference for WordPress developers funded by WP engine? I don't have any insight into what they did or didn't contribute, but it seems their obligation was zero and their level was quite a bit higher than that.
He tried to extort them. Hosting providers have been selling Wordpress hosting for years without "giving back"
Does Wordpress "give back" to PHP and Linux?