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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by godzillabrennus on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:56AM (#41729824)
As someone who had to handle four websites that suddenly stopped getting Wordpress security updates and updates for plugins because of how you handled this I don’t very much care to hear about “their” bad behavior.

You have no checks and balances so we paid the price. I hope people stop using Wordpress in droves. I hope you have to worry about your business the same way you suddenly made people have to worry about theirs.

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by glzone1 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:52PM (#41735444)
How is it even legal for wordpress.org (a public nonprofit) to take these actions on behalf of a for profit?
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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by ValentineC on Thursday October 03, 2024 @06:14PM (#41735649)
> How is it even legal for wordpress.org (a public nonprofit) to take these actions on behalf of a for profit?

There are three (or more) entities using the WordPress name now and confusing the heck out of a bunch of commenters, all of them controlled by Matt:

- The WordPress Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and the owner of the WordPress trademark.

- WordPress.com/Automattic is the company suing and being sued, and the exclusive commercial licensee of the trademark. They also pay people to work on the Foundation, and on WordPress.org.

- WordPress.org is a website personally run by Matt [1], through another company he owns called Mobius Ltd.

[1] https://x.com/photomatt/status/1840980359673995362

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