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by next_xibalba 622 days ago
When this story first emerged, I was somewhat sympathetic to Matt/Automattic. But geeze, he is just looking worse and worse. Between this tantrum and threatening a former employee over a very innocuous statement [1], his credibility is pretty low in my opinion.

[1] https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/nice-guy-matt-mullenweg-c...

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In that thread, Matt instantly jumping to a "you are against me/you must be the enemy" is suuuuch a red flag that he has Main Character Syndrome.
I think naming his company AutoMATTic really says it all.
To be fair, this was actually a common thing for blogging software companies at the time! Six Apart (makers of Movable Type) was named after the six-day age gap between the company's founders. And Tumblr Inc was originally Davidville Inc, David Karp's consulting company.
Now that's a bit of trivia I did not know.
Kellie's article is a well-written and reasonable response to mean-spirited bullying. It makes me wonder why a lot of people think it's good to have Silicon Valley companies run by trolls. Is that really the way to build successful businesses?

Edit: added missing word "companies"

Far out, this whole thing is links to links to links, is there somewhere I can read a summary of this whole stupid drama?
Someone shared this LWN article somewhere among all the discussions, and it seems neutral enough:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/991906/d7340f3b866d855b/