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I just spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out what Automattic is and does. I gather they are in some way connected to wordpress, but beyond that I am baffled.

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They are Wordpress, and wordpress.org. Also Akismet, Gravitar and Polldaddy.

Not WordPress.org, WordPress.org is a separate open source project supported by the WordPress Foundation (http://wordpressfoundation.org/).

Yes there is some overlap in people involved but Automattic / WordPress.com and WordPress.org are separate things.

I had a similar reaction the first time I read about them. They've acquired a few apps / businesses as well. I think they do pretty much anything software / Internet related. They 'build products for the web' as it were.

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