[jchw]

I know we're not going to get a response, but I'm really curious to hear what the explanation for the allegations covered by WP Engine's Cease and Desist sent to Automattic just yesterday, before this one:

https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...

There's two sides to every story but sincerely, something seems... very wrong.

[aimazon]

Matt has a reputation for flying off the handle, a smaller scale Elon Musk. Matt has been trying to get WPE to contribute more to the Wordpress project for years. Last week Matt heard that WPE were pressuring employees to stay silent about WPEs internals and so he flew off the handle and started throwing everything at the wall… thus, the festering resentment towards WPE for their lack of contributions to the project became the basis of all the things he’s throwing. Demand for payment was the easiest thing in reach. That didn’t work, and now trademark infringement claim is the easiest legal-shaped thing in reach. There’s no deeper explanation than man throws things.

The Wordpress foundation is Matt. Automattic is Matt. For all the pomp and circumstance, Wordpress is just Matt doing whatever he wants unchecked. Hence the trademark pages of the Wordpress website mysteriously changing today to reflect the version of reality needed to make this case stronger.

Wrong? Maybe. Consistent? Yes.

[rstupek]

Did the page contents actually get changed?

[cyral]

Yes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYRDoy8XgAE1CuR?format=jpg&name=...

[sharphall]

Yes, you can check the wayback machine to see the before version.