Response to DHH

Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line.

> I’m unsure why you felt you had to insert yourself into this fight with Silver Lake / WP Engine and take their side, but here we are.

It seems that the fight has been made public with photomatt's constant commentary, at least on HN.

Unconvincing.

> Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line.

Matt already knows this.[0]

photomatt: "It is also unethical to publicly speculate on my medication, medical state, or mental health."

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1ZXFiEgJY

The instant I saw that I stopped reading. Matt does not seem like a great person.

He also links to the DHH post where DHH very specifically address the thing he claims to be confused about:

>I don't even have a dog in this fight, only a set of principles. If anything, I'd be naturally inclined to be on Team WordPress. Between creating one of the most widely used open-source programs and powering half the internet, there's every tribal reason to side with Automattic over WP Engine's private-equity owners at Silver Lake.

>But whatever my feelings about private equity in general or Silver Lake's management of WP Engine in particular, I care far more about the integrity of open source licenses, and that integrity is under direct assault by Automattic's grotesque claim for WP Engine's revenues.

I love that people can say anything they want online. “It is unethical to publicly speculate on my mental health” is a sentence that sounds like it could be true, but it certainly is not. That’s not true! People are very much allowed to wonder out loud about extremely public behavior that has real impacts on real people.

That argument sounds more like “it is unethical to treat me as anything but God’s Special Fancy Boy, as my crusade is righteous and my foes ontologically evil”, which has the opposite effect when you’re trying to discourage people from asking “What the fuck is going on with this guy?”

I’ll refer to my previous comment on this ordeal as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41822606

Given how he is now accused of creating a toxic work environment for household staff and defending his mother when she sexually harassed the staff it does indeed seem like he is not a good person at all.