• David GerardOPMA
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    2 months ago

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

    (or, preferably, don’t)

    • smpl
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      -42 months ago

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

      • David GerardOPMA
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        172 months ago

        you’re on matt’s legal team right

      • @froztbyte
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        102 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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          -52 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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            72 months ago

            photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt

            • @froztbyte
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              52 months ago

              wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck

              • David GerardOPMA
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                52 months ago

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

                • @froztbyte
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                  32 months ago

                  user: metamichael created: 23 hours ago

                  lul

              • @selfA
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                52 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