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by cyral
632 days ago
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The part that is so weird to me is that Automattic (Matt is the CEO) owns WordPress.com which is a WP Engine competitor. So many people are confused about WordPress.com vs WordPress.org (The WordPress subreddit even has a sticky about it, since so many newbies are unaware that free self hosted WP exists). Matt is saying that the WordPress Foundation (non profit) gives Automattic an exclusive commercial license to use the trademark. So, WP Engine _may_ legally be in the wrong here (despite the trademark policy saying it was okay for a decade) - but his arguments about how WP Engine is ruining WordPress, is misleading customers, and is competing unfairly is so weird considering his own company does exactly the same. I guess his moral argument is that Automattic contributes so much to the WP source code, and other companies need to be doing the same or purchase a license to support it. His post about WP Engine not being real wordpress because they disable post revisions to save space is also strange, someone on Reddit mentioned WP Engine has been doing that for over 11 years, so it's not something new. (WordPress.com also reduces features unless the user pays for a higher plan) Automattic was an early investor in WP Engine even, and was seemingly fine with this until now? |
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Automattic originally registered the trademark. They donated it to the Foundation and retained the exclusive unlimited license for commercial purposes.