WP Engine sends cease-and-desist letter to Automattic over Mullenweg's commentstechcrunch.com/2024/09/23/wp-engine-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-automattic-over-mullenwegs-comments/?guccounter=1
1165 sats \ 3 comments \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 24 Sep tech
I'm not sure who's right, but there is drama brewing between the company that makes WordPress and one of the bigger WordPress hosting companies, and I always enjoy (in a popcorn-eating sense) watching these sort of things play out. This is one of those cases that also mostly doesn't impact me at all (worst case scenario, I guess, is that some blogs I read may switch providers or software), so it's easier to just watch things unfold.
Some folks watch soaps; I like watching tech companies get in slap fights.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 24 Sep
IT is fun to watch but also it cracks me up when people license their software and others not breaking the license are criticized for NOT breaking the license.
This sounds like preferences, opinions, and egos to me. Matt wants WP Engine to contribute more... OK. I get that. But can he make them do it? Not really. So his idea is to criticize them. Seems foolish to me.
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60 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 24 Sep
Oh, yeah, I'm not sure he has an actual legal right behind him (but I'm equally not sure about them having a right to sue him if he doesn't cease and desist). Happy to not be a lawyer here.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 24 Sep
Yeah, same here. I just get annoyed by the whining done in open source when people aren't breaking any law or license. What are these licenses for then? It just seems like whining to me.
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