Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit

Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by handfuloflight on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:15PM (#41735085)

What percentage of WPEngine does Automattic own? Why do not they donate to Wordpress Foundation out of that?

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by throwgfgfd25 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:26PM (#41735177)

Where is it documented Automattic (or Mr Mullenweg) owns any of WP Engine?

(ETA: Not saying it's impossible he or they have an interest -- I've just never seen this suggested. WP Engine is in many ways a competitor to wordpress.com, so it would be unusual, I think. And he/they have long not been a fan of WP Engine.)

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by tredre3 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:39PM (#41735310)

Automattic invested in WP Engine ~13 years ago. I don't know if they still own the shares though.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/15/silverton-automattic-put-1...

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by ValentineC on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:36PM (#41735278)

Automattic made an investment in WP Engine in 2011:

https://wptavern.com/automattic-makes-second-investment-wpen...

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by aimazon on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:35PM (#41735273)

Automattic were an early investor in WPEngine, but they exited the investment around 2018.

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by throwgfgfd25 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:38PM (#41735301)

Thanks.

2018 would tie in with about when I first got the impression he was not a fan of WP Engine. I'm sure there was fuss once before (about them not being on the "recommended hosting" page?)

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Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit by mthoms on Friday October 04, 2024 @01:05AM (#41737997)

That's when they were bought by private equity. So there was a big fuss about that.

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