... why write on HN about it? What do you think the people here can or will do? There's an endless trickle of these kind of posts, I have never seen one with a resolution that satisfied the OP.
The only way in this situation (which sounds like private capital took it over to run it into the ground taking the last profits) would seem to be 'up your game' by moving to a new company.
The article seems to gloss that WP is made available under GPL2+. What's the point attacking Automattic for making money when they fund the core development and make it available to everyone? It's even still available to WP Engine, the lawsuit is about trademark usage, not copyright.
From the perspective of GPL distribution rights, what exactly from Automattic 'scares [your] contributors away'?
The article says you stopped contributing because you weren't getting paid and it's demotivating to see Automattic were making money and yourself not. That's certainly understandable, but it's the same as, eg, linux kernel work. Huge numbers of devs are well-paid to contribute by companies and other devs not. You do have the option to try to get a gig being paid, as well as the option to stop or continue unpaid contribution. But it's not really valid to blame either project if some can make money from it.
It's hard to square 'antitrust' with continued availability to use and ship stuff based on GPL core code, and continued right to fork and do their own development.
Trademark rights are real and separate from copyright, it's also hard to see the judge being impressed with posturing about it.
It all feels like a code of conduct situation, the project unilaterally decided they won't work with an individual any more and withdrew credentials for working together. WPE's position is Automattic just can't do that to them, perhaps doesn't have the right to cancel anyone, 'cos antitrust. I guess we will all find out.
That site has a count of sites moved off WP Engine (currently 17K) and a graph showing the total rising over time. And some JS highlighting individual sites. So it obviously is recording sites that moved off WP Engine.
It looks like they have a list of ones not moved from them too... that doesn't change the fact they are recording the ones that moved. Either list... how is it 'anticompetitive'? If they moved, they moved; if they didn't, they didn't.
Epic clapback, but you're giggling at a name not remembered spontaneously while simultaneously not spending five seconds to check if anything actually happened.
I had a thing where github for some reason no longer accepted my email was trusted for the github account. It required setting the email again and going through the validation again.
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