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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 ...

There's a decent chance that any given website you visit runs on WordPress. Businesses large and small, along with big-name media outlets, swear by it. According to an oft-cited estimate, more than 40 ...

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 ...

Try to fire up a new blog on Windows Live and you’ll be directed to WordPress.com, the hosting portion of an insanely popular open source blogging platform that, until recently, had nothing to do with ...

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 ...

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, a major commercial backer of open source content management system ...

The community around WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. At the core is a fight between WordPress' co-creator ...

Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing the ...

A battle over ownership and open-source software catches WordPress users in the middle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's a ...