Discussion on the ouster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283

I'm just glad to have my last projects off of Wordpress to get to no longer care about drama at Automattic that seems to never end.

Has very little to do with the current brou-ha-ha, but I just realised its “Automattic” because his name is “Matt”. It’s like a veil over the world has been lifted.

This must be exhausting for the Automattic staff who just want to get on with their jobs.

> WordPress founder and a key advocate for the open source community

This should probably say self appointed advocate. He really hasn't advocated for much beyond collecting payments to Automattic.

Damn it hasn't even been a week.

Is it perhaps time to ackowledge that boards where everyone is buddies can't actually do their jobs, yet they get paid obscene amounts of money?

Does Matt own >50%? If so, the board is irrelevant. If not, I assume he would've been gone long ago.

Doesn't he control 84% of the voting stock or something? I'm curious how a board could even oust him in the first place. Or so he claims.

It was just a matter of time before he displayed his power with the nonprofit and wordpress.com which he controls personally, independently of the Automattic board. Maybe that is part of why the board gave him his control of Automattic back so quickly.

When the CEO becomes a diva, the company has lost the plot.

i'm gonna wait to hear it from the people who were saying yesterday they were in control if that's ok

> As of yet, no one at Automattic has heard a confirmation from the board. Mark Davies’ Slack account was also deactivated, sources said.

mhm, ok.