I looked at that, and thought "ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company's biggest competitor".

Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it's actually real?

And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise"):

😂

Is this real?

Billionaire power is corrosive to maturity; you can make everyone do what you want, so why find common ground or compromise when you can just throw a shitfit and demand that people agree that pineapple is tasty?

Just think, they could've spent this energy making WordPress not suck for Kubernetes deployments instead, but that's fine, we can settle for being told what to think and feel instead.

🤡

Can't wait for Google to add a required login checkbox that says "I accept that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior"...

And I'm being downvoted. Cute.

Keep em coming, kids. Nothing I've said is wrong.

Sorry, i'm already partial to banana-mascarpone pizza.