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[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago

Beware of using javascript to display customer satisfaction. This is how WPEngine looks without javascript enabled.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Waste of a perfectly good fire.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Prometheus doesn't get his liver ripped out every day by an eagle, for you to not set shit 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?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Matt sentenced to 25 years somewhere he can quietly sit and rest with his Leica collection

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Blog post: Day 1 of my 25 year sabbatical

[–] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago

screenshot. notamy: I am stunned that you're still posting publicly and aggressively about all of this. How have your lawyers okayed any of this? photomatt: Yes.

excellent stuff matt

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Matt is gonna shoot his mouth off so hard he gets wordpress.org's 501(c)3 status pulled

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 points 1 month ago

everyone involved is a dummy

[–] stel@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

there's a really good article about it here and a more succinct writeup here

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you modify a trademarked product and sell/distribute it, you can't use the trademarked name to describe it unless you get permission to do so.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that