A few days ago we reported that WP Engine had sued Matt Mullenweg and Automattic because the founders had expressed displeasure about WP Engine's refusal to assist in the development of the WordPress platform.
Recently, it can be seen on the WordPress.org login and registration page a checkbox or check box that wants customers of the service to confirm that they have nothing to do with WP Engine, regardless of being a user, developer, investor and so on.
Where before, this conflict was seen to involve only Automattic and WP Engine, this update to the WordPress.org login page shows that Matt Mullenweg wants everyone to know that WP Engine is the antagonist in this drama.
In fact, there are some tweets on the X/Twitter platform expressing concern about what Matt Mullenweg is doing on WordPress. Some developers also expressed confusion about what was happening directly to him, and some developers now find that they can no longer work to develop the digital publishing platform.
WordPress has also released an official tweet saying for WordPress developers who want to know if they have a relationship with WP Engine to ask the platform directly.
It is expected that Matt Mullenweg will introduce more ways to show the difference between the two platforms WordPress.org and WP Engine in the near future.