• 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

                • @selfA
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                  53 months ago

                  the only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter

                • David GerardOPMA
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                  53 months ago

                  i’m not saying he’s been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i’m just asking

                  • @froztbyte
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                    33 months ago

                    user: metamichael created: 23 hours ago

                    lul