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by robjwells 633 days ago
I have no dog in this fight, but from the outside this is ludicrous behaviour.

Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of a for-profit WordPress hosting company, should not be using his position in the open-source WordPress project to attack another for-profit WordPress hosting company. Nothing could tank the reputation of the open-source WordPress project faster.
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timkq 633 days ago
This only tanks the reputation of Mullenweg himself and his WordPress hosting company. WordPress powers about 40% of the web - it is too big to fail (as of now).
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the_mitsuhiko 633 days ago
> This only tanks the reputation of Mullenweg himself and his WordPress hosting company.

I am only looking at this from the outside but given that Wordpress.org (not the wordpress hosting company wordpress.com) is involved here, it's clear that this dispute involves the Wordpress project itself and not just the commercial Automattic entity/Matt Mullenweg.

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thekid314 632 days ago
Yeah, I'm afraid if WordPress.org doesn't have control over their own API's then they are compromised and reduces trust in them.
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bilekas 633 days ago
Do you have some references to that 40% number, because if that's true, thats terrifying.
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Flimm 633 days ago
It's 40% of websites, but bear in mind that not all websites are of equal significance. Some websites are just spam and never receive any visits. If we measured how much time people spend on different websites, I would guess that WordPress wouldn't even reach 5% of time spent web surfing.
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timkq 633 days ago
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress
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pooper 633 days ago
The question still stands though. Why does wp engine get to infringe on WordPress trademark AND get access to server resources for free?
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Ukv 633 days ago
WordPress's trademark policy[0] explicitly said:

> The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.

and

> Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.”

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240901224354/https://wordpress...

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cr125rider 633 days ago
That makes this seem pretty cut and dry…
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