[__jonas]

Sorry could you expand on this, how can they "put a banner in [...] WordPress instances hosted by WPE"?

I was under the assumption that WordPress is OSS, and WPEngine is running this software on their platform, so there was an update to this software, contributed by Automattic developers which included a banner denouncing WPE, and the WPE people decided to just deploy that update to their platform?

I don't think that means they "put the banner on their instance" does it? If they are unhappy with the management of the open source software they are using on their platform they presumably could fork it, or decide to not deploy the version that includes this banner, no?

[pluc]

There's a widget on the default WordPress dashboard that displays a RSS feed of WordPress.org, where Matt posted his rant, making it show up everywhere.

[__jonas]

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying!

I have seen the mentioned blog post now [1] the whole thing is starting to make more sense to me.

[1] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/