Having read a bit about this dispute and the parties involved I think the best settlement prospect for this lawsuit is to set everybody involved on fire.
So if I follow, basically everyone involved has been banking on users getting confused about what the "legit" version of WordPress is, with known transphobic asshole photomatt being particularly egregious with WordPress.com vs wordpress.org, and then known transphobic asshole photomatt remembered that he also had some more direct influence in WordPress.org that he could use to smite his enemies. Is that about right or am I missing some steps?
This guy has a serious case of Sam Bankman-Fried-levels of self-implicating logo-diarrhea. He seems massively invested in being seen as virtuous and winning in the court of public opinion. As someone with ASD, I can understand the impulse when you feel you're being wronged and I've certainly sometimes put my foot in my mouth out of frustrated interactions, but my god, I don't own a million dollar company and teams of PR people and lawyers to cover for me.
I need a dummy's guide to this entire thing, yesterday I didn't know about Mullenweg's existence and today I learn wordpress is suing wordpress for not being legit wordpress or something
what... what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress "vendored" versions of wordpress?
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smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 1y
mpk@awful.systems · 27 pts · 1y
Having read a bit about this dispute and the parties involved I think the best settlement prospect for this lawsuit is to set everybody involved on fire.
YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y
So if I follow, basically everyone involved has been banking on users getting confused about what the "legit" version of WordPress is, with known transphobic asshole photomatt being particularly egregious with WordPress.com vs wordpress.org, and then known transphobic asshole photomatt remembered that he also had some more direct influence in WordPress.org that he could use to smite his enemies. Is that about right or am I missing some steps?
Soyweiser@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y
Waste of a perfectly good fire.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
Prometheus doesn't get his liver ripped out every day by an eagle, for you to not set shit on fire.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y
This guy has a serious case of Sam Bankman-Fried-levels of self-implicating logo-diarrhea. He seems massively invested in being seen as virtuous and winning in the court of public opinion. As someone with ASD, I can understand the impulse when you feel you're being wronged and I've certainly sometimes put my foot in my mouth out of frustrated interactions, but my god, I don't own a million dollar company and teams of PR people and lawyers to cover for me.
dgerard@awful.systems · 13 pts · 1y
Matt sentenced to 25 years somewhere he can quietly sit and rest with his Leica collection
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 14 pts · 1y
Blog post: Day 1 of my 25 year sabbatical
dashdsrdash@awful.systems · 16 pts · 1y
"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
I suspect that he is incapable of admitting to himself that he is in a hole, much less that he dug it himself.
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y
on the contrary, 99% of the people who find themselves in a hole stop digging right before they fix the situation
sc_griffith@awful.systems · 15 pts · 1y
excellent stuff matt
dgerard@awful.systems · 13 pts · 1y
Matt is gonna shoot his mouth off so hard he gets wordpress.org's 501(c)3 status pulled
V0ldek@awful.systems · 4 pts · 1y
I need a dummy's guide to this entire thing, yesterday I didn't know about Mullenweg's existence and today I learn wordpress is suing wordpress for not being legit wordpress or something
dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y
everyone involved is a dummy
stel@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
there's a really good article about it here and a more succinct writeup here
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -2 pts · 1y
dgerard@awful.systems · 19 pts · 1y
unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -7 pts · 1y
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 1y
WPwas explicitly not a trademarked termsmpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -7 pts · 1y
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y
What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
o7___o7@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y
New blog smell, most likely
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -4 pts · 1y
kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use ...
dgerard@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start
(or, preferably, don't)
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -5 pts · 1y
dgerard@awful.systems · 16 pts · 1y
you're on matt's legal team right
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -8 pts · 1y
kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
froztbyte@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1y
what... what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress "vendored" versions of wordpress?
good lord
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de · -5 pts · 1y
self@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y
photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt