[$] WordPress retaliation impacts community

It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WPEngine, but the WordPress community at large is already theloser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been usinghis control of the project, and the WordPress.org infrastructure, topunish WPEngine and remove some dissenting contributors from discussionchannels. Most recently, Mullenweg has instituted a hostile fork of aWPEngine plugin and the forked plugin is replacing the originalvia WordPress updates.