[JumpCrisscross]

> a play to pretend that WordPress.org is run by volunteers when in truth it's entirely run by Automattic

It's run entirely by Mullenweg. The Board is clearly unable to have a big-boy conversation.

[pluc]

WordPress.org is way too big to be a one-man show. I am absolutely certain that Mullenweg has nothing to do with plugin or theme validation, account creation or even packaging new WordPress versions, but also certain that he can tell his employees what to do. Hell, all of that should be automated by now.

He wouldn't be able to do any of that with volunteers that aren't operating under his authority.

[JumpCrisscross]

> WordPress.org is way too big to be a one-man show

Big productions still have a director. The point is Mullenweg--not Automattic--has control.

[pluc]

I don't think there's a difference between the two, even if it was WordPress Foundation who claimed control, it's all Mullenweg's for-profit company that performs the work because Mullenweg's employees are all Automattic, and Mullenweg is at the head of all of it.

[Kwpolska]

Automattic is basically Matt Mullenweg, Inc. — not much difference there.

[rurban]

You forgot his mother.

https://projectdmc.org/regarding-mullenwegs-mother-the-wpe-l...