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Here is an admission that WordPress.com is currently a “bastardized simulacra of GPL code”. It’s “not WordPress” according to his own defn. Are the other Foundation board members aware you are marketing something as “WordPress” that isn’t? Isn’t that a TM violation?

Tia Wood (@metaprinxss) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can we best support women in WordPress? I've been bouncing around ideas and looking for existing solutions and maybe some ways I haven't thought of. What is currently out there? What do you wish was out there? How can we best support women in #WordPress?

Joost de Valk (@jdevalk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So... We've acquired Post Status and then immediately handed it off to a new, non profit, foundation (I'm in that foundation too, of course, but not alone): poststatus.com/ringing-the-be… Making sure Post Status keeps on being available for the community.

Miriam Schwab (@miriamschwab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you GoDaddy for expanding your contributions and support for WordPress with such a generous grant! The future of our ecosystem is strong when players step up in this way 👏💪

Gergely Orosz (@gergelyorosz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What we thought happened: giving up control of a trademark. What really happened: Automattic turned over all rights to the WordPress marks to the Foundation and then simultaneously had the WordPress Foundation license the commercial rights to the marks back to Automattic.

What we thought happened: giving up control of a trademark.

What really happened: Automattic turned over all rights to the WordPress marks to the Foundation and then simultaneously had the WordPress Foundation license the commercial rights to the marks back to Automattic.
sneakytits85 (@sneakytits85) 's Twitter Profile Photo

WPE outlines the scope of the discovery they'll be seeking from Mullenweg. I wonder if Otto42 and KraftBJ have hired their own lawyers?

WPE outlines the scope of the discovery they'll be seeking from Mullenweg. I wonder if Otto42 and KraftBJ have hired their own lawyers?
Michael Preslar (@drzimp113747) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After sneakytits85 posted this, I read the entire thing. Its long but a great summary read! Provided by both WP Engine and Matt Mullenweg : Descriptions of the lawsuit, time lines, claims, etc .. Here's are some of my key takeaways: (Note: IANAL, and sorry for length of post)

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You told us the foundation exists so WP would live on “in perpetuity” no matter what happened to you/A8C. There’s been 15 years of donations to ensure WP survives stuff like this. Redirecting donations to IA (etc) then implying the project is in financial peril is problematic.