WordPress supremo Mullenweg channels Churchill: Never let a good crisis go to waste
Matthew Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress biz Automattic and co-creator of the open source software, says he feels"much lighter" after 159 employees departed in the wake of his controversial attempt to pressure WP Engine to license trademarks the rival has used for years.
Thus Mullenweg tried to get WP Engine, which is backed by venture capital firm Silver Lake, to sign a seven-year When WP Engine failed to agree – it reckons its use of those trademarks is fair use – public posturing followed, along withfrom both organizations to each other. Then Mullenweg blocked WP Engine sites from receiving theme and extension updates via Mullenweg's WordPress.org. Community blowback followed and Mullenweg briefly suspended the blockade to allow WP Engine to set up an alternative update server. against Mullenweg and Automattic.
"Mullenweg’s public announcement did not mention ... that he had also caused the nonprofit WordPress Foundation to grant an exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable license and related security agreement to the WordPress mark right back to Mullenweg’s for-profit Automattic," the complaint says.
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