So, you can say “The best WordPress Themes source on the Internet!” but you cant say “***The*** WordPress Theme Source” etc. Ie, representating yourself as the authoritative source of WordPress things is not permitted.
That said, if Automattic asked only 8% from WP Engine to allow them to do the former, that would be very cheap compared to what name licensing fees are charged across the tech industry. WP Engine could have negotiated it down to 3-5% instead of ‘going Oracle’ and lawyering up.
Matt had no problem with WPEngine and trademark use when he invested in the company.
Good luck with that in court when he had set a precedent that it was okay up to this point even as an investor. It’s hilarious that Matt is blasting WPE for corporate shenanigans while doing this in the most greedy corporate way possible.
Matt has gone crazy.
I am not a fan of WP engine and two years back moved all our assets out to AWS but Matt is going to lose this one badly. His deeds are intact worse than WP Engine.
It’s very tough to shut the barn door once the horses are out of the barn in copyright law.
This has to mean that Automattic is burning through it’s cash and has to get something from somewhere.
If Automattic were financially healthy, all would be good.
Automattic is now scrambling, clawing for any money.
Matt is now referring to himself in third-person. LOL
Matt is a plague on the WP community. Hopefully he regains his sense and goes back to profitizing small plugins.
**The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.**
Time for Mullenweg to go away, he is embarrassing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t wordpress.com turn off revisions for free users? They make you pay for that feature?
Who knew?
So, you can say “The best WordPress Themes source on the Internet!” but you cant say “***The*** WordPress Theme Source” etc. Ie, representating yourself as the authoritative source of WordPress things is not permitted.
That said, if Automattic asked only 8% from WP Engine to allow them to do the former, that would be very cheap compared to what name licensing fees are charged across the tech industry. WP Engine could have negotiated it down to 3-5% instead of ‘going Oracle’ and lawyering up.
Matt had no problem with WPEngine and trademark use when he invested in the company.
I thought the WordPress Foundation owned the trademark?
[https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/](https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/)
Good luck with that in court when he had set a precedent that it was okay up to this point even as an investor. It’s hilarious that Matt is blasting WPE for corporate shenanigans while doing this in the most greedy corporate way possible.
Matt has gone crazy.
I am not a fan of WP engine and two years back moved all our assets out to AWS but Matt is going to lose this one badly. His deeds are intact worse than WP Engine.
It’s very tough to shut the barn door once the horses are out of the barn in copyright law.
This has to mean that Automattic is burning through it’s cash and has to get something from somewhere.
If Automattic were financially healthy, all would be good.
Automattic is now scrambling, clawing for any money.
Matt is now referring to himself in third-person. LOL
Matt is a plague on the WP community. Hopefully he regains his sense and goes back to profitizing small plugins.
**The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.**
Time for Mullenweg to go away, he is embarrassing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t wordpress.com turn off revisions for free users? They make you pay for that feature?
If so, to cry about it is hypocritical.