Mullenweg: WP Engine Filed Legal Action Against WordPress via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic announced connected Reddit that WP Engine initiated ineligible enactment against WordPress, Automattic, and Mullenweg himself. Mullenweg wrote that WordPress is countersuing.

WP Engine is simply a starring managed WordPress big supplier that Mullenweg alleges is violating the WordPress trademark.

Mullenweg’s comments came successful a Reddit thread titled “Matt Mullenweg needs to measurement down from WordPress.org enactment ASAP” successful which helium explained his broadside of the contented with WP Engine.

He wrote that helium discussed the concern with the WP Engine employees attending the WordCamp WordPress league past Friday successful which helium mentioned perchance banning WP Engine and that helium was trying to resoluteness his contented with the institution up until his closing Q&A which helium decided turned into a code against WP Engine.

Mullenweg described visiting the WP Engine booth astatine WordCamp and offering to people the employees caller attendee badges successful the adjacent that WP Engine is banned.

His description:

“That *if* we had to instrumentality down the WP Engine booth and prohibition WP Engine that evening, my workfellow Chloé could people them each caller idiosyncratic badges if they inactive wanted to be the league personally, arsenic they are assemblage members, not conscionable their company.”

Mullenweg insisted that helium tried to resoluteness the conflict:

“The full time I was successful discussions with Heather Brunner and Lee Wittlinger trying to de-escalate and resoluteness their trademark violations and atrocious behaviour successful the WordPress community. I returned to the booth astir 4:30 PM to accidental that I had yet gotten a connection backmost from Lee and Heather and was optimistic we could scope a solution truthful the booth would not beryllium taken down that evening.

I wanted to resoluteness everything earlier my presumption connected Friday afternoon, wherever I was either going to bash mean Q&A arsenic planned oregon contiguous the lawsuit for what WP Engine has done wrong. Heather and Lee responded to my substance messages, but refused to get connected a telephone oregon scope immoderate benignant of verbal knowing with me, and truthful I delivered the presentation. I was calling some backstage virtually minutes earlier I got on, trying to debar this full scenario.

WP Engine has present filed ceremonial ineligible enactment against WordPress.org, myself, Automattic, and we are doing the aforesaid against them, truthful I whitethorn not beryllium capable to remark connected this excessively overmuch successful the future.”

Reactions To Mullenweg’s Post

As if this infinitesimal determination has been nary nationalist announcement by WP Engine. Some Redditors successful that treatment were incredulous that Mullenweg enactment a deadline of that day to finalize a solution with WP Engine.

One Redditor posted:

“What could perchance beryllium resolved successful a fewer hours astatine a conference? Were they to alteration their sanction and chopped a abdominous cheque that day?”

Mullenweg responded:

“They person been stringing things on for years, it appears their main strategy is conscionable to hold solution portion they proceed their atrocious behavior, printing cash.”

This is simply a processing story, much volition beryllium added arsenic it becomes known.

Read Mullenweg’s post:

To beryllium precise clear, I was 100% cordial and polite to everyone astatine the booth

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