• smpl
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    03 months ago

    If you modify a trademarked product and sell/distribute it, you can’t use the trademarked name to describe it unless you get permission to do so.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      3 months ago

      unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that

      • smpl
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        -63 months ago

        Unless you refer to something other than violation of a trademark, I’m curious to know how it’s more complicated than that?

        • db0
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          163 months ago

          WP was explicitly not a trademarked term

        • David GerardOPMA
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          3 months ago

          explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start

          (or, preferably, don’t)

          • smpl
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            -43 months ago

            That would be if WPEngine sold hosting of an unmodified Wordpress codebase.

            • David GerardOPMA
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              173 months ago

              you’re on matt’s legal team right

            • @froztbyte
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              103 months ago

              what… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress?

              good lord

              • smpl
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                -53 months ago

                I’m only talking about trademark law. I’m not arguing what’s morally right or wrong, that’s a subjective perspective. I’m not able to tell if Dreamhost and Bluehost are violating the trademark, but from what I know they are generic webhosting companies and not as easily confused with Wordpress. In my personal opinion having had a quick look at Dreamhosts page about hosting Wordpress. It seems quite obvious that they only host the Wordpress software, with prominent phrases like “optimized for WordPress” and “Recommended by WordPress.org”.

                • @selfA
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                  73 months ago

                  photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt

                  • @froztbyte
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                    53 months ago

                    wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck