One of the most unsavory elements of the WordPress community is all the people that promote themselves as being community focused while seeming to be much more interested in how they can sell off what they provide to the highest bidder, leaving their users and customers holding the bag. There is nothing wrong about running a business, but claiming that you are about the community and then selling yourself to someone that is known to be engaged in shady business practices, like the Orweillian-named Awesome Motive. At the same time, a well-funded developer could potentially provide better solutions. One area were things are in need of significant improvement is security. Unfortunately, based on a plugin we recently ran across a serious vulnerability in, it doesn’t appear that funders in the WordPress space care about security. The plugin comes from Atarim, which touted being funded by investors with a WordPress background  in September:

Even though Atarim’s visual collaboration tools are now available for any website, WordPress has been our home from day 1, and having such an inspiring group of investors, each with their own success stories in the WP space, we’re going to continue supporting and championing the community. Now, in even more ways than we could before. [Read more]