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Since you're trying to get WP Engine to pay for "WordPress" trademark, by contributing back to open-source, because you feel they should, since it made them ric
by Mystery-Machine 2y ago
Since you're trying to get WP Engine to pay for "WordPress" trademark, by contributing back to open-source, because you feel they should, since it made them rich, I was wondering how many open-source projects did Automattic contribute to financially? Aside from WordPress, I'm sure you stand on the shoulders of giants such as Linux, nginx, MySQL, JavaScript libraries (or maybe you should call it ECMAScript, because you're not paying any trademark fees), etc.?
Just curious.
- dangrossman 2y agoThey're listed as a sponsor on the PHP Foundation website.
- sieabahlpark 2y agoComical that contributing to the most used CMS on the planet isn't sufficient. They must contribute financially to all open source otherwise they don't have a claim against WPE
- fhdsgbbcaA 2y agoThat alone should be a crime. (/s, PHP the language isn’t so bad, it’s spaghetti code like WP that gives it a bad name)
- fhdsgbbcaA 2y agoTo be fair I bet a good chunk of them use, or have used, Wordpress.
- busterarm 2y agohttps://ma.tt/2024/09/charitable-contributions/ https://ma.tt/2024/09/charitable-contributions/
- naniwaduni 2y agoCoincidentally, WPF is a 501(c)3.
- busterarm 2y agoBut not the one where his contributions went.