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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer.”

In a post on his blog, Mullenweg called out the rival hosting service — which is built on WordPress — for “strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem” by disabling certain features like revisions. “What WP Engine gives you is not WordPress,” he says.

WP Engine has since responded the post, saying “recent attacks against us are unfair and untrue and clearly designed to harm our business.”

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