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Zach Leatherman :11ty:

Wow, that WP Engine cease and desist is *next level* drama. Looks like Matt Mullenweg texted them to negotiate a fee or he would blow up their spot in his talk at WordCamp. WordPress community, fasten your seatbealts.

PDF Link: wpengine.com/wp-content/upload

It’s giving late-stage silicon valley when the cease and desists are flying back and forth

PDF Link: automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-

Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comment

(via @collinsworth)

@zachleat I just read about this! I mean the guy has his name in the company's name, so you know there's some serious ego there, but holy pepperoni, that's just… something else. 👀

@zachleat More to the point, what sort of type setting is this?

@ohmrun lawyers get paid for each typeface they can fit into their letterhead

@zachleat Holy smokes! 😳 Looks like Automatic is trying to shake down WP Engine for some moola 💰

@dvsk whew—it does look like that! 😅

@zachleat well well well looks like this is gonna keep escalating...

@ernie

@McNeely @zachleat I like how I’m the CMS drama guy now lol

@zachleat @McNeely On the plus side I see nothing but chill vibes coming from the Eleventy camp. Cheers. :)

@zachleat

This one reads particularly petty and lacking substance. Oof.

@zachleat I guess all hosting companies should remove any mention of WordPress from their sites? I think Matt has maybe lost the plot here.

@gavinanderegg it’s okay to selectively (and on a 14-year delay) enforce a trademark against only one of your competitors, right?

…right?

@cthos super good open ecosystem vibes all around

@zachleat @collinsworth 🤯

We are literally about to launch a client site in 2 days time on WP Engine (though we do manage plugins ourselves in version control)

@zachleat @collinsworth The website launch on WP Engine went fine, though I did have to inform our client of this legal wrangling nonsense 😀

@zachleat @collinsworth yikes — if i were using wordpress i would be absolutely scrambling to migrate away right now.

@zachleat @collinsworth kinda glad I just finished my WP CLI >> 11ty 3.0 beta pipeline.

@zachleat @dogwonder Hmmm maybe but I don't really trust open-source software unless there's an unhinged dictator or an evil corporation behind it. (Ideally both.)

@collinsworth @dogwonder makes sense—apropos of nothing what do you know about Rails

@zachleat @collinsworth @dogwonder Well at least Rails has a Foundation now which can transparently manage any trademark dispu—

Oh.

@jaredwhite @collinsworth @dogwonder no one has an exclusive license on screaming though (IANAL)

@dogwonder @zachleat @collinsworth smart, move! Leaving WordPress for a static site generator is one of the best moves I ever made.

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The whole debacle is giving Main Character energy.

@zachleat @collinsworth I feel like there is an eleventy toot in here somewhere.

"See how we don't block our competitors? Very mindful, very demure..."

@zachleat @collinsworth this is why you never give senior staff write priv on the repo ;)

@zachleat @collinsworth It doesn't only appear like that, Matt posted it in the open: wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-

"WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources."

IMO this is not reducing trust in WPEngine but WordPress as a whole and I can't imagine what this mess will lead to...

WordPress News · WP Engine is banned from WordPress.orgPending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.