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Re:WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:36PM (#41638321)
> and they're the party who can claim to be aggrieved, if it violates some duty Automattic has to WPF

Tortious interference - where one party (Automattic) interferes with a contractual relationship between two parties (WPengine, their customers), in this case by means of disparagement pushed to the dashboard of WPengine instances.

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Re:WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:42PM (#41654014)
Tortious interference requires that the interfering party induce the party to the contract to a breach of the contract. Where's that element?
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Re:WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic by FireBeyond on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:01PM (#41665554)
Inducement? Like "We have blocked the ability to access plugin and other repositories for customers of WPEngine. We have not done so for this other, "independent", for-profit entity (that just so happens to be owned by the same person)"?
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Re:WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:49PM (#41789989)
Inducement to what? Where's the breach of contract being encouraged?
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