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Employees describe an environment of paranoia and fear inside Automattic over WordPress chaos.

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.

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    What started all of this? I was hoping for some background in the article

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      WPEngine sells hosted Wordpress. Matt wants a cut.

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        So he’s destroying the WordPress empire over higher profits? He should ask unity how that went

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          To be fair to his tiny executive brain; The pie he’s trying to get a slice of is generating a half billion dollars, annually.

          Of course he’s going to be drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

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        It has to be more than this. Why aren’t they going after the 20 other major resellers?

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