In any event, that’s my last say in the matter.

-KB

Next, it’s not the anti-Matt brigade. The website merely points out the problems and skirting of said problems when it comes to WordPress as a whole. Terribly sorry if most of that leads back to, or seems to lead back to Matt personally.

Funny enough, in Matt’s comment, he skirted the fact that the “strict privacy policy” sprang up overnight the moment people started calling him on the unnecessary collection of data and asked him for a better response than “it could be useful in the future” to justify it.

Frankly, I wouldn’t have said anything if he didn’t write that comment with such haughtiness — as though that policy has been there for ages (or, at least, before he decided to add a phone home function to the WP codebase).

Something along the lines of “we’ve just implemented a new strict privacy policy” would have been more accurate under the circumstances.

While you may not have said “fork off”, Matt, in those exact words, you made it very clear that’s what anyone needed to do if they didn’t like how you handled the software. Robin explains it nicely.

-KB

Robin thank you for commenting, but I hope this debate with Matt ends here.

Secondly, I’ve never told anyone to “fork off.” Some malicious folks often try to twist my words and make false assumptions. Fact checking through my ultimately-accessible contact information would be too hard for them, I suppose.

I’d just like to point out that Matt, in a recent (last month or so) email to the WordPress dev mailing list, said this:

If you don’t trust wordpress.org, I suggest you do one of the following:

1. Use different software.
2. Fork WordPress.
3. Install one of the aforementioned plugins.

He didn’t say “fork off” word for word, but he did suggest that leaving and forking WordPress would be an alternative for people who didn’t appreciate Automattic’s data-gathering.

Not that I condone Dr. Mike’s actions in any way. He’s proven himself an immature idiot with an apparent vendetta against Matt and WordPress, but I’d just like to point out this quote of Matt’s.