• smpl
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    302 months ago

    Beware of using javascript to display customer satisfaction. This is how WPEngine looks without javascript enabled.

  • Mike
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    282 months ago

    Having read a bit about this dispute and the parties involved I think the best settlement prospect for this lawsuit is to set everybody involved on fire.

    • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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      112 months ago

      So if I follow, basically everyone involved has been banking on users getting confused about what the “legit” version of WordPress is, with known transphobic asshole photomatt being particularly egregious with WordPress.com vs wordpress.org, and then known transphobic asshole photomatt remembered that he also had some more direct influence in WordPress.org that he could use to smite his enemies. Is that about right or am I missing some steps?

    • @Soyweiser
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      112 months ago

      Waste of a perfectly good fire.

  • db0
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    This guy has a serious case of Sam Bankman-Fried-levels of self-implicating logo-diarrhea. He seems massively invested in being seen as virtuous and winning in the court of public opinion. As someone with ASD, I can understand the impulse when you feel you’re being wronged and I’ve certainly sometimes put my foot in my mouth out of frustrated interactions, but my god, I don’t own a million dollar company and teams of PR people and lawyers to cover for me.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      132 months ago

      Matt sentenced to 25 years somewhere he can quietly sit and rest with his Leica collection

      • Steve
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        152 months ago

        Blog post: Day 1 of my 25 year sabbatical

  • -dsr-
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    162 months ago

    “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

    I suspect that he is incapable of admitting to himself that he is in a hole, much less that he dug it himself.

    • kopper [they/them]
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      142 months ago

      on the contrary, 99% of the people who find themselves in a hole stop digging right before they fix the situation

  • David GerardOPMA
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    Matt is gonna shoot his mouth off so hard he gets wordpress.org’s 501(c)3 status pulled

  • @V0ldek
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    42 months ago

    I need a dummy’s guide to this entire thing, yesterday I didn’t know about Mullenweg’s existence and today I learn wordpress is suing wordpress for not being legit wordpress or something

    • David GerardOPMA
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      72 months ago

      everyone involved is a dummy

    • stel
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      32 months ago

      there’s a really good article about it here and a more succinct writeup here

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

      • smpl
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        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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          162 months ago

          WP was explicitly not a trademarked term

        • David GerardOPMA
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          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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                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