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Hello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit (news.ycombinator.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unless you refer to something other than violation of a trademark, I'm curious to know how it's more complicated than that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

WP was explicitly not a trademarked term

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't stumpled upon anything that complained about the use of the letters WP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

New blog smell, most likely

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here you go

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

(or, preferably, don't)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you're on matt's legal team right

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

What a nice person you are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wouldn't that just be funny as fuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

user: metamichael created: 23 hours ago

lul