• smpl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    13 hours ago

    That would be if WPEngine sold hosting of an unmodified Wordpress codebase.

    • froztbyte@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      8 hours ago

      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

      • smpl
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        5 hours ago

        I’m only talking about trademark law. I’m not arguing what’s morally right or wrong, that’s a subjective perspective. I’m not able to tell if Dreamhost and Bluehost are violating the trademark, but from what I know they are generic webhosting companies and not as easily confused with Wordpress. In my personal opinion having had a quick look at Dreamhosts page about hosting Wordpress. It seems quite obvious that they only host the Wordpress software, with prominent phrases like “optimized for WordPress” and “Recommended by WordPress.org”.