> But being a jerk isn't a crime and doesn't forfeit your rights.
The court case isn't about Matt being a jerk, it's about crime.
> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers
Wordpress.org was sold to volunteers as a community asset owned by the foundation not Matt and even Matt's lawyer made public statements to that effect.
Volunteers spent their time building it up, developing in to WordPress core reliance on w.org infra, etc..
Matt has a long history of un-ethical behaviour, and the current WPDrama is extensive. For me alone, the one screenshot of his threats to go to the press with confidential information about someone unless they did what he wants was enough.
Now volunteers find out from court documents that w.org is "Matt's personal website" as he puts it.
Additionally, now many volunteers are banned from the thing they helped build simply for voicing disagreement with his actions which are almost universally accepted as unethical. Many have been banned for reacting to one of his post with with disapproving emojji!!
Matt has built up the foundation through deception and then weaponised it.
> > But being a jerk isn't a crime and doesn't forfeit your rights.
> The court case isn't about Matt being a jerk, it's about crime.
If we're going to get that pedantic, and ignore the "spirit" in which that statement of mine was intended, then it's equally fair for me to point out that no, the legal case is not anything to do with a "crime." It is a civil dispute.
> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers and WP Engine is a for-profit company that is using WordPress.org's services, free of charge, for their own gain. Mutual consideration here seems warranted.
WPEngine allege
> > "As part of the WordPress community, WPE has contributed tens of millions of dollars in ongoing support "
> going to get that pedantic
I didn't think i was being pedantic, sorry.
I don't understand the US Court system but from what i gather, at least Attempted Extortion and breaches of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act are crimes.
COMPLAINT FOR:
(1) Intentional Interference with Contractual
Relations;
(2) Intentional Interference with Prospective
Economic Relations;
(3) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18
U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.;
(4) Attempted Extortion;
(5) Unfair Competition, Cal. Bus. Prof. Code
§ 17200, et seq.;
The court case isn't about Matt being a jerk, it's about crime.
> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers
Wordpress.org was sold to volunteers as a community asset owned by the foundation not Matt and even Matt's lawyer made public statements to that effect.
Volunteers spent their time building it up, developing in to WordPress core reliance on w.org infra, etc..
Matt has a long history of un-ethical behaviour, and the current WPDrama is extensive. For me alone, the one screenshot of his threats to go to the press with confidential information about someone unless they did what he wants was enough.
Now volunteers find out from court documents that w.org is "Matt's personal website" as he puts it.
Additionally, now many volunteers are banned from the thing they helped build simply for voicing disagreement with his actions which are almost universally accepted as unethical. Many have been banned for reacting to one of his post with with disapproving emojji!!
Matt has built up the foundation through deception and then weaponised it.