WP Engine are quite within their rights to take legal action, what Matt did was outrageous and not how you should run a business or an open source project.
Brian Coord’s post is good on this: https://www.briancoords.com/the-wcus-closing-i-wish-wed-had/
I wrote some thoughts a couple of days ago too: https://www.simonrjones.net/2024/09/wordcamp-us-2024/
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