Alec Kinnear

That’s the whole point. Other businesses besides Automattic should be able to use the Wordpress name. The Automattic/Foundation attack on Pagely above is an incredible and perfect example of the horrendous bullying the community faces from Automattic.

Many of us have contributed enormously to Wordpress. There’s no reason at all it should be winner take all as Automattic seems to want with exclusive use of the name Wordpress, secret sauce VIP hosting and bans from Wordcamp for competitors.

As others have mentioned, Yoast is a favoured child of the Wordpress.org honchos. He’s allowed to shamelessly profit off of the Wordpress name. Apparently a support ticket for his GPL plugin costs $700. Why should Yoast be allowed to profiteer and others not allowed to offer reasonably priced support using the Wordpress name?

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