Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan(techcrunch.com)
techcrunch.com
Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/15/internal-blog-post-reveals-automattics-plan-to-enforce-the-wordpress-trademark-using-nice-and-not-nice-lawyers/
Mullenweg’s prior comments that there weren’t any plans to pursue any other hosts or plugin developers seem to be null in the face of a bigger plan.
When you couple this with the additional (egregious) trademark registrations for terms commonly used across the community, it seems clear that there was a co-ordinated and deliberate plan.
I wonder if any other hosts or plugin developers caved in to pressure before Mullenweg turned his sights on WP Engine, or whether his enforced ‘samattical’/Tumblr tirade delayed things.