[DonnieBurger]

How about using the WordPress Foundation, a non-profit, to attack a for-profit's competitors. They could lose their tax-exempt status.

[shakna]

A nonprofit removed access to resources from a for-profit, with whom they did not have a contract. That's a non starter.

[DonnieBurger]

There is more to the story than just this event. For context:

https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...

https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-cease-and-desist-exhib...

[FireBeyond]

Well, hang on, all over this discussion you have a Automattic employee being quite clear (in their understanding) that wordpress.org is something Matt benevolently lets the Foundation use.

But as you'll read, there is so much murkiness to this that a mud bath would be positively transparent. The .org is not the foundation, but the foundation says that it pays for the .org, the .org is not the foundation but lives on the foundation's AS.

I doubt much if anything will happen, but all this seems to be doing to me is shining a light on how the distinction between Matt, Automattic, WP.org, WPF, and WP.com all vary depending on Matt's needs, wants and priorities on any given day.