[legitster]

The legal victory is almost moot, even if Automattic is found to have acted in their rights. How does any Wordpress developer know they are not going to be next? Or all of the third party plugin providers? Or theme makers? All of them heavily use Wordpress branding in their services, few contribute to the open source.

The precedent being set here is wild, and every Wordpress organization becoming a Mullenweg personal mouthpiece account defending him personally is just so, so, bad.

This is one of the the most needless self-destructive acts I have ever seen in the world of business.

[davesmylie]

Not "business" I guess, but Andrew Lee and the whole freenode saga has has got to come close

[bdzr]

> How does any Wordpress developer know they are not going to be next? Or all of the third party plugin providers? Or theme makers? All of them heavily use Wordpress branding in their services, few contribute to the open source.

Easy, just don't be too successful.