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photomatt 2y ago
Thanks, I carry a co2 and carbon monoxide monitor. Co2 where I'm at is 572. I do own a place in Montana, and I meditate several times a day. I have not threatened to take down WordPress.org. WPE's preservation requests do complicate things, legally, though, for the Slack and forums that W.org offers. Both Cloudflare and Fastly have reached out offering CDN services to W.org, which we're considering. Cloudflare also serves a lot of WP Engine. We do like controlling our infrastructure, though, for a variety of reasons, and have run it without problems or downtime for 21 years. Currently the only outside vendor we use is Slack/Salesforce, which donates free Slack Pro accounts for 49k users. (I think that would cost ~5M/yr.) We also use some Github, which is free for open source.
- wattwullenberg 2y ago
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- bigiain 2y ago
  You do realise just how guilty people sound when complaining about preservation requests for discovery during lawsuits? If you're "right" and "on the side of good and freedom", what are you worried about in Slack/forums/whatever? Because everything made public so far in their filing is pretty fucking bad (for you), I can only assume that discovery is gonna reveal some even worse behaviour on your part - or you'd have responded in public with some of that instead of whining about "preservation requests complicating thing"...
  - cdolan 2y ago
    For you: See paragraphs 32 and 33
    - bigiain 2y ago
      Yeah. I foresee a possible hilarious outcome here. Matt wins this case, having the court determine the trademarks are "worth" so much that WPEngine - one out of thousands of WP hosting companies - owes licence fees of 10mil per year. Lets ballpark that at a billion dollar a year in licence fees worth of revenue, maybe 5 or 10 billion value. The IRS then steps in and "Al Capones" Matt and Automattic for tax evasion by moving billions of dollars of assets between a non profit and a for profit company without disclosing or paying tax on it. IRS wins punitive damages, wipes out every company asset Matt's ever been involved with. WPEngine and Silver Lake buy the remains of these companies (including the trademarks) at fire sale prices. Everybody loses.
      - kstrauser 2y ago
        Whoa. I’m bookmarking this for later. That seems way too plausible to my not-a-lawyer ears.
      - anon7000 2y ago
        I think it was explained elsewhere, but Automattic has the commercial trademark rights, so licensing money wouldn’t be transferred to a non-profit foundation.
        bigiain 2y ago
        Yeah, but according to the filing, Matt had Automattic transfer the ownership of the trademarks to the foundation, they had the foundation grant the exclusive licence back to Automattic. If those trademarks are asserted to be worth billions, there are presumably reporting and tax obligations for both the ownership transfer and the licence grant agreement.
        metamichael 2y ago
        WordPress Foundation: Owns the trademark Automattic: Owns the commercial right to use and sell the license This is done because the WordPress Foundation is non-profit. The legal intricacies of this have been worked out a long time ago. You want to use the WordPress license? Then you'll have to buy it from Automattic.
- bdurette 2y ago
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  - GrinningFool 2y ago
    A decade and a half ago it was "BlackBerry" not "Blackberry". Now get off my grassy hill.
    - ValentineC 2y ago
      For the sake of explaining this thread, the parent was making a WordPress reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/capital_p_dangit/ https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/capital_...
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- dboreham 2y ago
  > I do own a place in Montana Did not know that.

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Thanks, I carry a co2 and carbon monoxide monitor. Co2 where I'm at is 572. I do own a place in Montana, and I meditate several times a day. I have not threatened to take down WordPress.org. WPE's preservation requests do complicate things, legally, though, for the Slack and forums that W.org offers. Both Cloudflare and Fastly have reached out offering CDN services to W.org, which we're considering. Cloudflare also serves a lot of WP Engine. We do like controlling our infrastructure, though, for a variety of reasons, and have run it without problems or downtime for 21 years. Currently the only outside vendor we use is Slack/Salesforce, which donates free Slack Pro accounts for 49k users. (I think that would cost ~5M/yr.) We also use some Github, which is free for open source.

wattwullenberg 2y ago
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bigiain 2y ago
You do realise just how guilty people sound when complaining about preservation requests for discovery during lawsuits? If you're "right" and "on the side of good and freedom", what are you worried about in Slack/forums/whatever? Because everything made public so far in their filing is pretty fucking bad (for you), I can only assume that discovery is gonna reveal some even worse behaviour on your part - or you'd have responded in public with some of that instead of whining about "preservation requests complicating thing"...
- cdolan 2y ago
  For you: See paragraphs 32 and 33
  - bigiain 2y ago
    Yeah. I foresee a possible hilarious outcome here. Matt wins this case, having the court determine the trademarks are "worth" so much that WPEngine - one out of thousands of WP hosting companies - owes licence fees of 10mil per year. Lets ballpark that at a billion dollar a year in licence fees worth of revenue, maybe 5 or 10 billion value. The IRS then steps in and "Al Capones" Matt and Automattic for tax evasion by moving billions of dollars of assets between a non profit and a for profit company without disclosing or paying tax on it. IRS wins punitive damages, wipes out every company asset Matt's ever been involved with. WPEngine and Silver Lake buy the remains of these companies (including the trademarks) at fire sale prices. Everybody loses.
    - kstrauser 2y ago
      Whoa. I’m bookmarking this for later. That seems way too plausible to my not-a-lawyer ears.
    - anon7000 2y ago
      I think it was explained elsewhere, but Automattic has the commercial trademark rights, so licensing money wouldn’t be transferred to a non-profit foundation.
      - bigiain 2y ago
        Yeah, but according to the filing, Matt had Automattic transfer the ownership of the trademarks to the foundation, they had the foundation grant the exclusive licence back to Automattic. If those trademarks are asserted to be worth billions, there are presumably reporting and tax obligations for both the ownership transfer and the licence grant agreement.
        metamichael 2y ago
        WordPress Foundation: Owns the trademark Automattic: Owns the commercial right to use and sell the license This is done because the WordPress Foundation is non-profit. The legal intricacies of this have been worked out a long time ago. You want to use the WordPress license? Then you'll have to buy it from Automattic.
bdurette 2y ago
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- GrinningFool 2y ago
  A decade and a half ago it was "BlackBerry" not "Blackberry". Now get off my grassy hill.
  - ValentineC 2y ago
    For the sake of explaining this thread, the parent was making a WordPress reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/capital_p_dangit/ https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/capital_...
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dboreham 2y ago
> I do own a place in Montana Did not know that.