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Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. Is this April fools? With real products launching on this

by halapro 6mo ago

Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. Is this April fools? With real products launching on this date you can't really be too sure.

rvz 6mo ago
Not an April fools joke. [0] [0] https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
- quantummagic 6mo ago
  That makes it look more like an April fools joke. All the commits are from today.
  - OJFord 6mo ago
    That's not unusual though, large companies releasing something open source very often squash the history at launch.
  - george_perez 6mo ago
    Cloudflare specifically launches things on April 1st a lot of times. https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1907055975057506793 https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1907055975057506793 They announced 1.1.1.1 on April 1st way back in 2018 too.
    - gman83 6mo ago
      Gmail was also launched on April 1st. The fact that it came with 1GB of storage instead of Hotmail, which limited you to something like 20MB, made people think it was an April Fool's joke.
  - bigbuppo 6mo ago
    The best jokes are serious.
echelon 6mo ago
> Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. It's not illegal to make product comparisons. That's just competition.
- halapro 6mo ago
  Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.
  - rectang 6mo ago
    The phrase "spiritual successor to WordPress" is not likely to be judged a trademark violation, though. It doesn't create confusion in the marketplace as to whether Emdash is WordPress.
    - halapro 6mo ago
      Wording never stopped a-holes and lawyers from being annoying. The only difference in this case is that Matt is the small fish.
  - danudey 6mo ago
    The problem with WP Engine was that the name is confusing to users who aren't familiar with it. Presumably the WordPress Engine is the core of Wordpress? Or it's the thing powering Wordpress? It's easy to see ways in which an end user could be confused which was which. Conversely, this product is called something else, and while their blog post references Wordpress repeatedly it's in a way as to make it very clear that this is not that.
    - chuckadams 6mo ago
      Matt seemed pretty fine with the name for at least 14 years, including investing in them at one point.
  - echelon 6mo ago

by halapro 6mo ago

Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. Is this April fools? With real products launching on this date you can't really be too sure.

rvz 6mo ago

Not an April fools joke. [0] [0] https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

quantummagic 6mo ago
That makes it look more like an April fools joke. All the commits are from today.
- OJFord 6mo ago
  That's not unusual though, large companies releasing something open source very often squash the history at launch.
- george_perez 6mo ago
  Cloudflare specifically launches things on April 1st a lot of times. https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1907055975057506793 https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1907055975057506793 They announced 1.1.1.1 on April 1st way back in 2018 too.
  - gman83 6mo ago
    Gmail was also launched on April 1st. The fact that it came with 1GB of storage instead of Hotmail, which limited you to something like 20MB, made people think it was an April Fool's joke.
- bigbuppo 6mo ago
  The best jokes are serious.

echelon 6mo ago

> Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. It's not illegal to make product comparisons. That's just competition.

halapro 6mo ago
Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.
- rectang 6mo ago
  The phrase "spiritual successor to WordPress" is not likely to be judged a trademark violation, though. It doesn't create confusion in the marketplace as to whether Emdash is WordPress.
  - halapro 6mo ago
    Wording never stopped a-holes and lawyers from being annoying. The only difference in this case is that Matt is the small fish.
- danudey 6mo ago
  The problem with WP Engine was that the name is confusing to users who aren't familiar with it. Presumably the WordPress Engine is the core of Wordpress? Or it's the thing powering Wordpress? It's easy to see ways in which an end user could be confused which was which. Conversely, this product is called something else, and while their blog post references Wordpress repeatedly it's in a way as to make it very clear that this is not that.
  - chuckadams 6mo ago
    Matt seemed pretty fine with the name for at least 14 years, including investing in them at one point.
- echelon 6mo ago