Breaking news big tech guy gets to do nothing and still get paid

Bypass paywall at either https://web.archive.org/web/20260909213058/https://www.404me... or https://archive.ph/7J5TB.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/993022/wordpress-automattic-ce... also has a writeup which takes some quotes from the article (and a statement by Automattic).

Finally

This is fantastic news. Matt is an ass and unfit to lead a small HOA, let alone a company and open source project.

Reminds me of the first season of Succession

pro tip: don’t go public. don’t get a board. maintain full control.

Finally.

> One person speculated that the timing may have something to do with Mullenweg’s annual trip to the Burning Man festival, after which he tends to return “with ideas.” This year’s festival ended on September 7.

HN needs to allow some html in comments so we can put ‘lmao’ in <blink> and <marquee> tags

This is likely how they pull out of the disasterous legal actions Mullenweg has taken.