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by photomatt 1y ago
I wrote a blog post about this: https://ma.tt/2025/09/externalities/
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by photomatt 1y ago
My blog post is my genuine expression of happiness and joy at the ruling. The legal process is slow, and the court date is not until 2027! Reflecting on the strength of the WordPress community, we recently had a great WordCamp US in Portlan
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by photomatt 1y ago
Happy to answer any questions from HN folks, to the extent I can. I love this community and have been here since 2007.
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by photomatt 1y ago
Howdy!
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by photomatt 1y ago
This could set a very dangerous precedent if it goes through.
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by photomatt 2y ago
It started because WP Engine was abusing the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks in a way that was confusing to customers around the world.
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by photomatt 2y ago
That's a very shallow assessment of Automattic's business, which has over half a billion in revenue and much of it not from WordPress. You also assume that investor pressure could drive company decisions, which is ridiculous given
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by photomatt 2y ago
I don't think anything about our update could cause the issues he describes and we've had no other reports, this is the only claim on the internet, and doesn't include enough technical details to tell if it's an actual b
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by photomatt 2y ago
I will happily promote and link to any forks from WordPress.org. I've linked to two already, let me know if I need to promote more.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Have you read the GPL?
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by photomatt 2y ago
Nothing has broken. Perhaps WP Engine should have consider that before suing us.
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by photomatt 2y ago
We have taken on stewardship of this code going forward, and will dedicate engineers to it. Probably more than Silver Lake does.
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by photomatt 2y ago
It actually is an excellent website, and the repo is here: https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io
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by photomatt 2y ago
This release fixes a separate security vulnerability from the original update.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Sorry for that error, the post has been updated now.
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by photomatt 2y ago
All the information in the links you shared is totally wrong. Our lawyers have never said that WordPress.org is a non-profit or owned by the Foundation. It's owned and run by me personally, and I have a trademark license from the WordP
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by photomatt 2y ago
Totally different. The Foundation has no employees, only volunteers and three board members. (I'm one of them.)
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by photomatt 2y ago
The scope will be significantly broader as Mary brings a lot of talents to the ecosystem.
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by photomatt 2y ago
I'm very excited to have Mary on board. :)
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by photomatt 2y ago
I expect a lot of top technical talent at WP Engine that's aligned with Open Source is thinking the same thing.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to do better.
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by photomatt 2y ago
It's early afternoon for me, I'm in South Africa right now. https://x.com/photomatt/status/1842048123541061859 Please don't make assumptions on time zones, it's rude. Also, I am very much list
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by photomatt 2y ago
This was more generous than both the Basecamp and Coinbase buyout offers, I'm curious why you say I'm a petty tyrant. I can be a little ASD so sometimes my written communication doesn't come through the best.
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by photomatt 2y ago
It was posted on September 30 ~10pm UTC, so people had about 4 days to decide.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Our current average salary is 149k USD, median is 134k USD.
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by photomatt 2y ago
I love a good pun. :)
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by photomatt 2y ago
We have a special stock program called A12, and one cool feature of it is that you can still sell stock after you've left, with windows every six months. (You can only buy if you're currently employed, and it's downside prote
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by photomatt 2y ago
As of today we are 1,733. But that may go up soon, we are hiring aggressively to fill roles of some people who left and meet increased customer demand! https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
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by photomatt 2y ago
Other hosts have contributed significantly to WordPress.org and Automattic over the years, in a variety of arrangements. None have abused the WordPress and WooCommerce trademark as much as WP Engine has, hence our C&D against them.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Yes.

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