Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan(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/

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wpinsider2 anni fa

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more commentary on this.

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.