Matt Mullenweg
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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What they believe
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Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.
I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
ma.ttSaid 14 Oct 2024This on korrents
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A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
ma.ttSaid 26 Sept 2024This on korrents
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Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 12 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.
I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
Response to DHH Said 14 Oct 2024
An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.
Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.
Response to DHH Said 14 Oct 2024
Attacking DHH personally over the WP Engine dispute was wrong; the quarrel is with WP Engine and Silver Lake, not with him.
I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH, who, while I disagree with him on several points, isn’t the actual villain in this story: it’s WP Engine and Silver Lake.
Response to DHH Said 14 Oct 2024
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Code a company published under the GPL can be forked and improved by anyone, including the project it was distributed through.
If WP Engine didn’t want this to happen, they should not have published their code under the GPL or distributed it through WordPress.org’s directory.
Response to DHH Said 14 Oct 2024
A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.
This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
WPE & Trademarks Said 26 Sept 2024
Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.
WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.
WPE & Trademarks Said 26 Sept 2024
A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.
If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.
WPE & Trademarks Said 26 Sept 2024
A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel.
But what makes Open Source work isn’t the law, it’s the ethos. It’s the social mores.
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking Said 17 Sept 2024
Open generosity attracts firms that feed on a project without giving anything back, and a project is entitled to name them.
This openness and generosity will attract parasitic entities that just want to feed off the host without giving anything back.
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking Said 17 Sept 2024
Users of an open source project should choose which vendors to pay by how much those vendors contribute back to it.
So it’s at this point that I ask everyone in the WordPress community to vote with your wallet.
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking Said 17 Sept 2024
Llama is not open source: a licence that revokes itself once a user gets large enough is proprietary, whatever it is marketed as.
I believe Meta should have the right to set their terms—they’re smart business, and an amazing deal for users of Llama—but don’t pretend Llama is Open Source when it doesn’t actually increase humanity’s freedom.
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking Said 17 Sept 2024
Corporations dishonestly claiming the open source label for marketing is evidence that open source has won.
When corporations disingenuously claim to be “open source” for marketing purposes, it’s a clear sign that Open Source is winning.
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking Said 17 Sept 2024
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Where they publish
Blog ma.tt His blog: WordPress, open source, travel and whatever else. Has a feed.
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- Anthropic Employment 17 Oct 2026 How employment is changing at Anthropic is a fascinating read.
- Florence Sunset 16 Oct 2026 Enjoying with Matías.
- Pushing Standards 16 Oct 2026 We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever sin…
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- RIP Eric Binnion 14 Oct 2026 For the next 30 days, a few billion of you will get an extra header in honor of Eric Binnion. The code in Nginx to do this is poetic: add_header X-Remembering "Eric Binnion " always; Our design team will make that less…
- Neal Stephenson Live! 13 Oct 2026 Speaking of sci-fi authors, Automattic is hosting Neal Stephenson for a livestream about his new book soon, please tune in! Neal was a big influence on WordPress! I got hip to him from Tantek. In the source code of bill…
- Board Agent 13 Oct 2026 Automattic is always 5–15 years ahead of other companies, but things happen faster now. I predict other companies will start scrambling to add great writers to their boards, because, well, look at the headlines in AI. U…
- Beeper MCP 6 Oct 2026 Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using Claude and the Beeper MCP to wrangle all the group chats for his daughter’s sports.
- Bruce Schneier on Systems 25 Sept 2026 Bruce is one of my favorite writers. He packs profoundness. Also honored that he’s an advisor at Automattic, truly one of my idols. His blogs and books rocked my world when I was young.
- OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future 17 Sept 2026 OmFest is coming together quite nicely! The new website is beautiful and highlights some of the experiences available throughout the day. I think Om would be very impressed by the attendee list. We’re doing it at the Sw…
- Mirene 17 Sept 2026 It’s official in SF Standard: Stewart Brand sells his seaworthy Sausalito houseboat to tech CEO. Ahoy!
- Major Life Announcement 11 Sept 2026 I know everyone has been waiting to hear what’s been going on behind the scenes, so I’m just going to lay it out: I’ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand’s houseboat Mirene. People say “the two happiest…
- Scanning Plugins 10 Sept 2026 It’s a really big deal that we’re scanning all the plugins now.
- BM Snaps 3 Sept 2026 Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer,…
- Homework from WordCamp 20 Aug 2026 A few times during the WordCamp US keynote, I asked for a show of hands and got mostly blank stares back, especially on the AI questions. That’s not a criticism — it’s a reading list. If the future is going to be built…
- Surprise DM 19 Aug 2026 When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…
- Student Plan 18 Aug 2026 Sarah Perez at TechCrunch writes: WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan. $24/yr, starting with “6 GB of storage, backups, staging sites, and other tools, as well as support f…
- Me.sh on Android 13 Aug 2026 TechCrunch on how Me.sh (née Clay) is now available on Android. Also, kudos to those other Clay folks for winning the Clay memetic namespace dominance.
- Beeper Merge 12 Aug 2026 Beeper has some fun new features where you can merge chats with the same person across multiple networks, polls, labels… Very exciting work happening on that product.
- OmFest Registration 10 Aug 2026 Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We’re still working out some details, but we’ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om’s 60th birth anniversa…
- Super-organized 9 Aug 2026 I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they’re not really connected. I’m trying to get everything in one place so there’s no data duplication, a single s…
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- I'm a little worried we have super-persuasive AGIs at the same time that so many states are banning data centers. 2 Nov 2026
- A Typescript version of @WordPress plugins? All of core someday? Interesting... 🤓 What should we call it? https://t.co/FOPlZGFdPg ? 2 Nov 2026
- "Entire Internet" on @BuiltWith shows a very different trend than @W3Techs! However, when you look at just the top 1M, the drop is similar. I wonder if the Google AI Mode effect @Reddit just mentioned dropped 15-20% of @WordPress sites from the top million. 1 Nov 2026
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