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Automattic is suing Festingervault – I have not seen people talking about this, while GPL resale is INCREDIBLY controversial, WordPress itself was the ones advocating for it… This to me is especially interesting in light of Matt’s recent comments. Thoughts? (Source: Festinger’s site).
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As a note, the service cannot be paid for at all right now. I understand GPL is largely unethical, but I am concerned by automattic breaking its own policies on GPL. I wonder if the ‘foundation’ is going to fork itself at this point, remove GPL, and have a pissing match over the entire industry. This is getting… weird.
Edit: I think people are misunderstanding my position. I do not think Festinger is good, or even should be defended- I am, however, worried that Automattic is suddenly going all in on these lawsuits, and wondering where the future is going to take us.
My take:
Automattic is spending much much more than they are making.
ARE WE DEFENDING GPL CLUBS NOW?? WOW!!!
Hopefully anyone that sues those pirates will get them in court. It’s no different than piratebay.
It’s terribly bad business to profit on someone else’s back, be it Automattic or other. They still have employees to pay and families to feed. On top of that it’s very shady to inject the plugins with malicious code to bypass the licensing.
controversial? since when taking piracy to court is controversial? This should be the norm!
Festingervault was selling nulled plugins.
You know what? fuck those plugin devs that bloats it with crap and nag about premium, spam wp dash with suggested plugins and ads, who blackmail you by taking/disabling your shit when you unsubscribe (looking at you Awesome Motive you dumb assholes). And fuck Festingervault too for selling stolen shit too. If I love the plugin, I buy it. If the plugin is trying to FUCK me, then I accept the challenge.
Fuck these parasites
Automatic shouldn’t be able to do this. They shouldn’t be a party. They can’t enforce licenses of other people’s code. And the us Supreme Court has said an api can’t be copyrighted. So they can’t be a party of a lawsuit for someone else’s code.