Matt Mullenweg Leads WordPress Future
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•Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’
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Matt Mullenweg heads up WordPress.com and its parent company, Automattic .
He also owns the WordPress.org project, and the nonprofit foundation that controls the WordPress trademark.
He has been fighting a third -party WordPress hosting service, WP Engine , for months .
He says the company is threatening to use the trademark of the open-source software.
WP Engine and the WordPress Foundation have been involved in a dispute over the use of the "WP" abbreviation.
The dispute culminated in a lawsuit, in which WP Engine accuses Automattic and Mullenweg of extortion.
The lawsuit raises concerns about corporate overreach, alleging Mullen Weg’s actions reflect “a clear abuse of his conflicting roles”.
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