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by InsomniacL 554 days ago
> I think wordpress had every right to cut WPEngine off

Even though wordpress.org is built/maintained by volunteers such as WPEngine who were all told it's a "community asset", "nobody owns it but wordpress", "it's maintained by the foundation".

Volunteers who now find out from court documents that wordpress.org is the personal website of Matt who can do whatever he wants with it?

Volunteers who are now banned from the thing they helped build for simply voicing disagreement with actions which are accepted by most as extreme/unwarranted?

Even volunteers who work on WordPress (not w.org), who built in to the Core reliance on w.org infrastructure after being lied to that it's owned by the Foundation.

I think in this specific case, they have absolutely no right and the injunction supports that.