The WordPress Drama: $B Companies vs. Open Source

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This man controls 40 percent of all websites. In this video, you can find out why this is problematic and why the #WordPress blog software is currently at the center of a legal dispute between two multi-billion dollar companies. 🍿 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:18 Matt Mullenweg 02:16 WordPress 03:11 WP Engine 05:28 Automattic Inc. 06:13 The WP Engine Case 09:08 WordPress Trademark 13:06 Cancer to WordPress 15:39 Freedom through Software 18:58 WP Engine Ban 20:38 Divided Community 23:28 My Opinion 🔗 Links: WP Engine is not WordPress (wordpress.org Blog): https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/ WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org (wordpress.org Blog): https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/ Trademark Policy (WordPress Foundation): https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/ The Future of WordPress and the Web (TechCrunch Interview): https://youtu.be/Fn_HzfI_sW0 The Wordpress Drama Interview (Theo - t3․gg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUJgahHjAKU An In-Person Q&A With Matt Mullenweg (WordPress.tv): https://wordpress.tv/2024/10/11/an-in-person-qa-with-matt-mullenweg/ Automattic's Cease and Desist Letter: https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-cease-and-desist.pdf WP Engine's Cease and Desist Letter: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking (Matt Mullenweg's Blog): https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/ 📜 Legal: Photo of Matt Mullenweg by Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en 2 Photos of Matt Mullenweg by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Video of WordCamp US 2024 by WordPress.tv, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Video of Scobleizer TV by WordPress.tv, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Music License Codes: VOINKK4VUN4TLJ6C, VX5YXVKM8I8FSXA8, OHRMTVXNJQP3895M, OTQRUBEYV0BESSYT