WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

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• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, open source licenses don’t entitle you to use trademarks.

  This looks pretty bad to me.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    WP Engine for WordPress.
    That seems to be the commonly accepted solution if you look at other 3rd party trademark cases - situations like “RIF is fun for Reddit” coming to mind.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      RIF did have to change their name though. reddit.com/…/reddit_is_fun_is_being_renamed_to_ri…

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wordoress engine for wordpress ?

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• TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wow Matt really looking bad on this one. This just reeks of trying to push out a major business competitor to wordpress.com and abusing control over wordpress.org to do it.

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  • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ThePrimeagen invited Matt to explain what’s going on.

    TL;DW Matt’s claim is that he tried to get WP Engine to pay for a Trademark license (or whatever it’s called - I’m recalling from watching yesterday), over several months, and they tried to legally block him in every way. Their self-claimed contributions to Wordpress were (as he tells it) that they held conferences where they promoted their own stuff only - code contributions have been minimal.

    So the combination of not willing to pay for the trademark + not contributing back (not in code, not in helping the community) is Matt’s reasoning for blocking them from using Wordpress’ resources.

    He also mentioned that he has good relations with other Wordpress hosts, so it’s not like he’s trying to block anyone else from hosting, but they were all willing to pay for the use of the Trademark (and/or contribute back).

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The open-source side of WordPress is pretty pissed off at Matt right now. The Slack is heavily downvoting/disliking all of this.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wordpress is a security hole anyway, use something else if you have to use plugins for your usecase.

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just not Drupal. Its still pretty bad.

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What does WP stand for then?

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  • GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I must be old - it’s WordPerfect to me.

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    • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Exactly what I thought. I’d love to sit a young person today in front of that blank blue screen with the blinking cursor. Now, I have to go take my pills before bed.

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  • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    WillPeoplenoticethecashgrab

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• ravhall@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wordpress is junk.

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• xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hopefully this spurs Automaticc to put more attention into the fediverse. With Tumblr moving to use Wordpress code that could bring all tumblr blogs to the fediverse and get more programmers and resources interested

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  greymatter blog superiority

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