Matt Mullenweg Is Claiming His License From the WordPress Foundation for the...
When we last covered Matt Mullenweg’s claims about the WordPress trademark, we focused on his claim in an interview that the licenses the WordPress Foundation has with Automattic and him are revocable....
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Explains How He Personally Puts Automattic Employees in Charge...
In our post detailing that various different entities that Matt Mullenweg has around WordPress, we quoted an Automattic employee claiming that “the WordPress project is so much more than Automattic and...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Can’t Be Removed From the Leadership of WordPress Because He...
We keep seeing news stories and commentary about Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign against WP Engine and all the fallout of that, which gets basic details wrong. That is in large part because Matt...
View ArticleWordPress Foundation’s Recent Hosting Related Trademark Filings List...
The recent interview that Matt Mullenweg did with The Verge highlighted his focus on WP Engine having not donated to the WordPress Foundation. It is an odd focus since the WordPress Foundation does...
View ArticleAutomattic’s “Trademark Infringement” Discussions With WP Engine Were...
If you are trying to figure out what really was happening with WP Engine and Automattic ahead Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign, as has been the case with so much else, WP Engine has provided a clear...
View ArticleLack of Clarity Surrounding Scope of Automattic’s Rights to Commercial Use of...
Last week we noted that a post written on Automattic’s website by an associate general counsel at Automattic, appeared to have a gotten significant detail wrong. As the author claimed that a non-profit...
View ArticleAutomattic Can’t Decide if WordPress.org is a Previously Undisclosed...
As part of Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign against WP Engine, someone with control of the WordPress starting blocking customers of WP Engine from getting security updates for WordPress software....
View ArticleWordPress Documentation On Confusion With WordPress.com Changed to Include...
The voice of WordPress could be a powerful force to help address many problems that exist in the WordPress space. Including lots of FUD about security that gets in the way of focusing on fixing real...
View ArticleWordPress’ Latest Canonical Plugin WPGraphQL is Still Using Vulnerable...
Two days ago Matt Mullenweg announced the WordPress plugin WPGraphQL was becoming a canonical plugin: Happy to announce that WP GraphQL is becoming canonical on WordPress.org. I could say more, but...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Claims The WordPress Trademark Was Donated to the WordPress...
The trademark for WordPress plays an important role in Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign against WP Engine, and all the security implications that come out of it. What is clear is how unclear things...
View ArticleAutomattic’s Lawyer Falsely Claims Automattic Doesn’t Control What Code is...
In a couple of previous posts, we have looked at claims coming from an associate general counsel at Automattic. This person is claiming that there is a never before disclosed non-proft that controls...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Is Now Claiming WordPress.org Provides “Access to...
If you are trying to figure out what is going on with WordPress these days, it is difficult, as Matt Mullenweg and others on his side are saying things that appear to varying degrees to not be true. We...
View ArticleHow Did Automattic Employee Know in Advance of Takeover of Advanced Custom...
On Saturday, Matt Mullenweg announced a takeover of WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields plugin. That isn’t really surprising. As we wrote recently, Matt Mullenweg can hold plugin developers’ hostage....
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Claimed that “Open source gives you the security, the trust,...
As we mentioned in our last post, Matt Mullenweg continued his extortion campaign against WP Engine over the weekend by taking over WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin. The day before, a...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Claims He Doesn’t Know about Day to Day Operations of the...
So far, with everything going on with WordPress, there has been a decided lack of new details exposed by journalists. There have been plenty of stories, but most just repeating claims made by various...
View ArticleWas the WordPress Foundation Just Matt Mullenweg When It Issued Him a License...
As part of Matt Mullenweg’s attempt to post through his own bad actions, earlier this week he was criticizing people behind a couple of other open source projects over the ownership of the trademarks....
View ArticleWordPress Plugin Vulnerability Data Providers Are Failing to Warn About...
On Wednesday of last week, we posted that WordPress’ latest canonical plugin WPGraphQL contained a vulnerability because the developer had failed to update a third-party library included in the plugin...
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WP Engine Requires Agreeing to 15 Page Legal Agreement to Report Security...
As part of Matt Mullenweg’s ongoing extortion campaign against WP Engine anyone logging in to the website of WordPress has to click a checkbox saying that “I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any...
View ArticleAutomattic’s Lawyer Didn’t Mysteriously Delete Statement That WordPress.org...
On Friday, the law firm representing WP Engine in their lawsuit against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg filed a motion for preliminary injunction. One claim made by the lawyers from Quinn Emanuel in that...
View ArticleAutomattic Deleted Blog Post Praising WP Engine, Where WP Engine’s VP of...
One question that has come up a lot recently when the situation with Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, is who is the bad guy? Considering that Matt Mullenweg is engaged in a now very public extortion...
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