Conflict in the world of WordPress: The other side of the coin

Attorneys for Matt Mullenweg and Automattic filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against WP Engine, providing a different perspective on the reasons for this conflict. According to them, it is not Mullenweg and Automattic that are at fault, but WP Engine, which requires the defendant to provide resources and support for free and limits Mullenweg's ability to express its opinions about WP Engine's practices.

“But the success and viability of WordPress depends on a supportive and symbiotic relationship with those in the WordPress community.”

🚀 After defining what the community is, how it was founded, and the role that Mullenweg and Automattic play as very supportive of the community, they describe WP Engine as a company that gets huge benefits from volunteer work and donated time without giving enough back to the community. This is the part that Mullenweg and Automattic believe WP Engine left out of their complaint, that Mullenweg was expressing his opinion that WP Engine should be more supportive of the community, and that Mullenweg was responding to the threat posed by the plaintiff's conduct.

• 📌 The key idea is that the WordPress community, as an open project, depends on a "symbiotic" relationship between community members, including web hosts like WP Engine.