[csomar]

My understanding is that Automattic owns WordPress.com and not WordPress.org.

i.e: You can be in Automattic business and make a dev team larger than them that develop the core WordPress. They don't rule WordPress the open source product but just are a company that made it.

[srbby]

Interesting that "whois wordpress.org" doesn't show who owns it.

[TotempaaltJ]

It's the WordPress foundation. It's on Wikipedia.