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by FireBeyond 640 days ago
> and they're the party who can claim to be aggrieved, if it violates some duty Automattic has to WPF

Tortious interference - where one party (Automattic) interferes with a contractual relationship between two parties (WPengine, their customers), in this case by means of disparagement pushed to the dashboard of WPengine instances.
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Matticus_Rex 638 days ago
Tortious interference requires that the interfering party induce the party to the contract to a breach of the contract. Where's that element?
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FireBeyond 637 days ago
Inducement? Like "We have blocked the ability to access plugin and other repositories for customers of WPEngine. We have not done so for this other, "independent", for-profit entity (that just so happens to be owned by the same person)"?
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Matticus_Rex 625 days ago
Inducement to what? Where's the breach of contract being encouraged?
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