Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

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154 points davidandgoliath | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 18:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source

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codegeek ◴[17 Oct 24 20:55 UTC] No.41873704[source]▶

Mullenweg just keeps digging. He is the only person I have ever seen interacting in such a petty manner that he made a company backed by Private Equity look like a victim. If Trademark was the issue, why did it take him over a decade ? Why is he not going after all the other gazillion WP providers that use similar phrase on their website ? We all know the answer. The only company (WP Engine) that beat his for profit company (wordpress.com). He is just salty.

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pessimizer ◴[17 Oct 24 22:06 UTC] No.41874296[source]▶

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What you've said is completely true, but I still can't detect any bad behavior here. He stopped supporting a company that was threatening (not unfairly) his company with his software. Why would he be obligated to justify that?

If you built your business next to mine, and I shared e.g. my water infrastructure with you for free or for a nominal fee, then one day your business got large enough to threaten my business, am I obligated to let you keep using my water, or should you have figured something else out long ago?

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1. CBarkleyU ◴[17 Oct 24 22:43 UTC] No.41874561[source]▶

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That analogy doesn't fit. What actually happened is that someone shared with you how they do mining contingent on the fact that if you use that knowledge or add to it, that you have to share it as well (WordPress was a fork off of b2/cafelog)

You did so, but turns out that other people are way better at utilizing that knowledge than you are. You throw a hissy fit on the internet. Everybody turns against you, even people who think that in essence you're right.

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