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This is a human being, making a mistake, only to be bullied by literally the whole internet?

Never have I ever witnessed a lynch with any positive consequence whats so ever in my entire life.

Empathy all the way. We all make mistakes. Stay kind and positive.

Actively running a harassment campaign against a competitor is not "making a mistake".

I don’t think anyone wants to lynch him in the sense of harming him for the sake of it, or even retributive justice.

People want him removed from Wordpress leadership to protect Wordpress. The harm to him is really orthogonal to the greater goal of not destroying the software that runs 40% of the internet or whatever, triggering man-centuries of pointless labor to replace it across all those installs.

Given the options of letting Matt tear the ecosystem apart or letting the ecosystem tear Matt apart (figuratively, not literally), the ecosystem should win. It sucks for Matt, but wasting cumulative lifetimes of human effort to migrate all these installs is stupid and not worth saving one man’s ego over.

Most of the world's 8+ billion people managed to go through the last months without shaking down a competitor, preventing users for receiving security updates, conducting a harassment campaign, or destroying an ecosystem because they feel like it. That's not just a mistake. He deserves contempt, firing, and a substantial fine at the very least.