[shdon]

Mullenweg calls it a fork. I could see that being somewhat okay if it's indeed for security fixes, but removing the upsells is petty at the very least. But a fork doesn't take control of the original, so I wonder what they did there? Perhaps a redirect from the ACF entry to SCF?

To be honest, none of this makes WordPress look good... It just seems like a douche move.

[k1kingy]

It can hardly be called a fork when you wipe every mention of the original dev team in the codebase, and start a fresh changelog with 'Patched security fixes' whilst thanking his team. It's an absolute takeover not a fork.

[mananaysiempre]

The thanks come from the upstream release notes for 6.3.8, FWIW.