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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: 0s | 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]▶
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. gitaarik ◴[18 Oct 24 03:42 UTC] No.41876155[source]▶
Well isn't that the deal when you're building a company around an open-source project? It's a bit childish to go after people that are better at making money of your open-source project. Maybe you should then just not go into open source, if you cannot handle these kinds of situations.