| > when a company that built all its value on an open-source project decides not to give anything back [...] As far as I've been able to tell, WP Engine have contributed back. Before this spat they were noted on WordPress.org as contributing 5% of their resources to the WordPress project[0], they have their own open-source projects (e.g: [1]), and sponsor WordPress events. What WP Engine allegedly refused to do was sending tens of millions of dollars to Matt's for-profit company. I'd like to see this at least addressed rather than just repeating that WP Engine supposedly contributed nothing. Is it that they scaled back contributions just recently? Is it that 5% (plus events/etc.) isn't sufficient? > Look at the following list of words and try to find the intruder: > wp-activate.php, wp-admin, wp-blog-header.php, wp_commentmeta [...] wp engine [...] wp-trackback.php, wp_usermeta, wp_users > Well, all the ones that contain an underscore _ are names of the WordPress core database tables. All the ones that contain a dash - are WordPress core file or folder names. The one with a space is a company name… Using "WP" in their name is branding allowed by the WordPress Foundation's trademark policy[2]. Not a lawyer, but I don't believe confusion stemming from uses that are permitted by the trademark holder count against them legally, else "WordPress.com" would be in far more trouble. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240524210250/https://wordpress... [1]: https://github.com/wpengine/faustjs [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240901224354/https://wordpress... |