In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...
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The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring. The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the ...
If you’re a WordPress.com user you’ll want to be extra cautious the next time you’re tempted to whip up a blog post from your local coffee shop. If anyone on the same open connection is using a ...
This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...
A hot potato: David Heinemeier Hansson was recognized as "Hacker of the Year" for developing the open-source web framework Ruby on Rails in 2004. The Danish software engineer has joined the clash ...
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under ...
Memo to anyone who logs in to a WordPress.com-hosted blog from a public Wi-Fi connection or other unsecured network: It’s trivial for the script kiddie a few tables down to hijack your site even if it ...
Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt Mullenweg is talking to me about toilet paper. He tells me about a time he used a bathroom at Google’s Mountain View, California, ...