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Matt Mullenweg lashes out at some WordPress contributors.

Mullenweg wrote in a blog post today that he had deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of several contributors, including two — Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi — who have plans for a new WordPress fork, reports TechCrunch.

Both indicated a willingness to spearhead the next WordPress update yesterday, following Mullenweg’s announcement that Automattic is drastically scaling back its involvement in the open-source project.

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