@jonathan The only surprise is that it took this long for the board to take action. He reined in his poor public behavior but it seems it must've continued internally?

@vmbrasseur agreed. I have a history with the WP community because of my hosting days. The amount of behind the scenes tomfoolery was intolerable 10-15 years ago. Cult of personality. All for a pile of code that has aged like warm milk.

@jonathan Oh is there new tea?

@jonathan ah, just found it

aw, poor little rich kid getting a paid leave of absence after doing things that a non-CEO would have been fired for at about 1% of the severity, I feel so bad for him

@fluffy this.