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by photomatt 2y ago
The trademark originally belonged 100% to Automattic. It transferred it to the Foundation, and retained the commercial license and the ability to commercially sub-license. The Foundation gave me a license to run WordPress.org. This has all
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by photomatt 2y ago
I'm very comfortable with the truth of everything being public, it's on our side. The legal case will drag out for years.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Why doesn't she share messages that prove she declined a WordPress.com job in 2022? You're holding me to a different standard. I'm here, I'm talking to journalists. They're not.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Automattic employs ~100 people that work full-time on WordPress.org. I can appoint them into positions on WordPress.org, if I think that's appropriate.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Just wait!
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by photomatt 2y ago
She was interviewing November 2023 to January 2024. She declined the WordPress.org role on January 26, 2024. I even invited her to my 40th birthday on Jan 11, another text message she decided not to share.
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by 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 complica
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by photomatt 2y ago
Sure, it was a few text messages at the end of a months-long negotiation about a licensing deal. We posted the timeline and the final term sheet here: https://automattic.com/2024/10/01/wpe-terms/ WP Engi
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by photomatt 2y ago
Yes this is part of their smear campaign, just like their last C&D. They're cherry-picking stuff to try and make me look bad, while not addressing the core issue of their trademark violations. They want me to stop telling their cus
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by photomatt 2y ago
The agreement wasn't about their license to the code, it was about their license to the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. They could agree to not do things allowed under the GPL, like replacing our Stripe attribution, it's the
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by photomatt 2y ago
What would you like me to answer? I haven't doxxed any private texts from other parties like they have. I've only been releasing things I've said or sent.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Howdy, Matthew Charles Mullenweg from the lawsuit here. One thing I'm surprised they disclosed is on page 35 that Heather Brunner at WP Engine was interviewing for a job at Automattic. That's why we were spending so much time toge
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by photomatt 2y ago
That's not true, will address in court. They made up a lot of things in this.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Silver Lake and WPE's legal attacks may impact my ability to provide free services on WordPress.org in the future, especially things like Slack or forums that are grounds for discovery. I hope not, though. Going to fight this with ever
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by photomatt 2y ago
This was a separate agreement from their GPL license, which of course allows them to fork. Sorry it's not clear from the term sheet, but this was about them forking our Stripe extension to replace the attribution from us to them for Wo
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by photomatt 2y ago
The problem isn't their use of WP, it's their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Today, I offered them a reprieve: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-reprieve/
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by photomatt 2y ago
Why would I build that? The built-in source works great, for tens of millions of servers.
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by photomatt 2y ago
I'm high on life.
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by photomatt 2y ago
No, I will continue to serve in all of those roles.
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by photomatt 2y ago
It's hard, I agree. You'll need to be a good engineer to set it up and host it. But it's very doable. I guess we'll see how good their engineers are.
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by photomatt 2y ago
I do read! And I hope you consider WordPress for something in the future and don't let a PE firm's bad behavior forcing us into a public fight cloud your user experience.
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by photomatt 2y ago
Happy to answer any questions HN folks have about this. Love y'all. :)
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by photomatt 2y ago
Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ and great benefits We're looking for engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Wor
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by photomatt 2y ago
Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ and great benefits We're looking for engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Wor
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by photomatt 2y ago
Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ and great benefits We're looking for engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Wor
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by photomatt 2y ago
Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+ and great benefits We're looking for engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Wor
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by photomatt 2y ago
It's funny because a lot of our growth has come from being one of the early CMSes to be completely W3C / XHTML compliant out of the box, security improvements including our update system give us auto-update numbers better than And
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by photomatt 2y ago
That's a good list, there's cool stuff coming with many of those! SQLite support will be official if it's not already thanks to the Playground work. https://wordpress.org/playground/
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by photomatt 2y ago
This was a bit of a reaction to other CMSes that were creating dozens or hundreds of tables, which creates a different set of problems for things like search or overly complex joins.

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