One of Automattic’s charges against WP Engine is that by using “WP” in their name, they sow confusion about their relationship with the WordPress project. WP Engine’s letter pointed to a page on the WordPress foundation website about their trademarks (...
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One of Automattic’s charges against WP Engine is that by using “WP” in their name, they sow confusion about their relationship with the WordPress project. WP Engine’s letter pointed to a page on the WordPress Foundation website about their trademarks (https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/ ) that said “The abbreviation ‘WP’ is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.”
If the Wayback Machine is accurate, that page has been updated sometime in the last 24 hours or so to indicate that it’s still technically OK for third parties to use “WP,” but if you are WP Engine you are doing it wrong.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like putting “these people are bad because they never paid us to use this term that we say you don’t need to pay us to use” on your website is the kind of thing a lawyer would advise against doing
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@neil @jalefkowit Their trademark argument is so bad. There are plenty of companies and orgs with WP in their title that he seemingly has no problem with.🧐
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Fedi Jedi :jedi: last edited by
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gu://au.me :verified:replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit not to defend Matt's behavior or this dubious terms and conditions change, but I do understand why WP Engine can be viewed as misleading.
If WP Engine ships a CMS that removes some native WordPress feature, it's not technically "WordPress", and it's really unclear that they do so.
See their homepage
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to gu://au.me :verified: last edited by
@burgervege If that’s really the problem, it seems awkward that the proposed solution was “give us some money and the problem will go away.”
If Matt really thinks WP Engine is shipping a defective product, how much they’ve given to the WordPress Foundation should be completely irrelevant. A defective product is a defective product.
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Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]replied to gu://au.me :verified: last edited by
@burgervege @jalefkowit FWIW, the feature I've seen talked about is revisions. This has always been built in as an option with define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', false ); in your wp-config.php.
It sounds like WP Engine does it by default, which is what I used to do on my personal sites because I hated database bloat (there was a major grumble on Twitter at the time it was added, many of us turned it off).
It's a config choice vs. a feature removal.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Hugh last edited by [email protected]
@hugh @platypus @burgervege Sssh, that confusion is the good kind