Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]

Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by spellsaidwrong on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:40PM (#41726837)

I have never seen a more reckless case of CEO behaviour in a long time. I have no idea how the discussions with streamers and now Hacker News, is going to fare for Mullenweg, but I don't think it's good.

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by enjikaka on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:59PM (#41726944)

He did let WP fuck it up with React too. Writing WP themes lets you experience the worst templating solution ever, especially post that. Crazy dude that one.

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by brokenodo on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:36AM (#41727420)

It would be unsurprising if someone who named a company after themselves turned out to be a narcissist who couldn’t help themselves.

https://ma.tt/2003/04/hit-diggity/

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by zarzavat on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:16AM (#41729170)

I don’t know about that, it’s normal to name a business after the founder. For example JCPenney, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Disney, Boeing, Wells Fargo. The reference is also quite oblique.

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by pwillia7 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:02PM (#41732579)

King Gilette

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by adolph on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:04PM (#41733181)

Amazing:

  Gillette was also a Utopian Socialist.[16] He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894)[17] which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_C._Gillette

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by jkestner on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:55PM (#41734898)

Taco Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Bell

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