WordPress’ Biggest Mistake
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/07/29/wordpress-biggest-mistake/

Johnson, Tom H.
I'd Rather Be Writing
2008

Abstract:

For a company that recently secured $29 million in funding, has grown from nonexistence to worldwide popularity in just four years, and which has the reputation of being the platform for serious bloggers, it’s kind of bold for me to call attention to its biggest mistake in a post. But I’m convinced that it’s a huge miscalculation on the part of Automattic (the company that leads WordPress). The Automattic team, led by Matt Mullenweg, has about 25 engineers and …. not one technical writer.