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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start

(or, preferably, don't)

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That would be if WPEngine sold hosting of an unmodified Wordpress codebase.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you're on matt's legal team right

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm only talking about trademark law. I'm not arguing what's morally right or wrong, that's a subjective perspective. I'm not able to tell if Dreamhost and Bluehost are violating the trademark, but from what I know they are generic webhosting companies and not as easily confused with Wordpress. In my personal opinion having had a quick look at Dreamhosts page about hosting Wordpress. It seems quite obvious that they only host the Wordpress software, with prominent phrases like "optimized for WordPress" and "Recommended by WordPress.org".

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

wouldn't that just be funny as fuck

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

the only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i'm not saying he's been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i'm just asking

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

user: metamichael created: 23 hours ago

lul