David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agoHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up144
arrow-up144external-linkHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-27 months agounsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 months agoWP was explicitly not a trademarked term
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 months agoWhat do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
minus-squareo7___o7@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agoNew blog smell, most likely
minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months ago@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-27 months agoexplain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start (or, preferably, don’t)
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 months agoyou’re on matt’s legal team right
minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months ago@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months agowhat… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress? good lord
minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agophotomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agowouldn’t that just be funny as fuck
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoi’m not saying he’s been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i’m just asking
minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agothe only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter
unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
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WPwas explicitly not a trademarked termdeleted by creator
What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
New blog smell, most likely
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@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
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explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start
(or, preferably, don’t)
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you’re on matt’s legal team right
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@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
what… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress?
good lord
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photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck
i’m not saying he’s been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i’m just asking
the only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter