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No. They're in a completely different agriculture related business. They have a custom web app to run the business part of their business, but rely heavily on t
by bigiain 2y ago
No. They're in a completely different agriculture related business. They have a custom web app to run the business part of their business, but rely heavily on their WordPress site for marketing, discovery, and customer acquisition.
They have a quite technical marketing team (well, two people) who run the WP site, which they're quite aware of how often plugin and partner theme upgrades show up. The call was basically "So what's going to happen with WordPress and plugins? Are we going to be able to rely on updates and future security for the website?" She wasn't worried that they were gonna get caught up in a trademark problem, but that the trademark "war" would kill off WordPress core development, and/or the future development and bug/security fixes of the plugins they rely on. A reasonably valid fear, and one that I certainly don't dismiss out of hand.