Regarding: "WordPress is managed by the WordPress Foundation"

The Foundation doesn't actually manage anything though, does it? WordPress.org is managed and owned by Mullenweg personally.

Yeah... I did this in a hurry (about 15min) before work, and HN doesn't allow edits after some time so let me complement the information.

AFAIU:

1/ The WordPress Foundation is a proper non-profit and has as mission guarantee the "open sourceness" and ensures all WordPress projects are under the GPL license.

2/ The Foundation holds the trademarks to WordPress, WordCamp, BuddyPress, WP-Cli and they define the rules of its usage.

This is relevant because part of this fight is related to WordPress licenses. Also because Matt is using both hats as CEO of Automattic and President of the Foundation to press WP Engine and this is why, as I understand, WP Engine is accusing Automattic of unfair competition.

Also the other action against WP Engine is related to the trademarks.

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On your points:

> The Foundation doesn't actually manage anything though, does it?

It does have responsibilities about the open source licenses and holds the trademarks to WordPress, plus has a team that is paid by the Foundation to seek these interests as a non-profit.

> WordPress.org is managed and owned by Mullenweg personally

Not necessarily, he did start it and is the main director, but the Foundation serves WordPress and, in theory, as a non-profit could have a different director.

I understand some points differently:

> It does have responsibilities about the open source licenses and holds the trademarks to WordPress, plus has a team that is paid by the Foundation to seek these interests as a non-profit.

The Foundation hires no employees directly. Automattic sponsors some people to work on Foundation stuff.

>> WordPress.org is managed and owned by Mullenweg personally

> Not necessarily, he did start it and is the main director, but the Foundation serves WordPress and, in theory, as a non-profit could have a different director.

The WordPress.org domain and website, including the centralised plugin and theme repositories used by millions of sites, are not run by the California public benefit corporation known as the WordPress Foundation.

Instead, they are allegedly run by another of Matt's companies named Mobius Ltd.

I can't work on the allegations (nor I think it matters, it's just details on how it operates, not who is legally responsible).

But on "Automattic sponsors" that sentence is true, but not only Automattic, WordPress has more sponsors as well as voluntaries. So it is not all under Matt, even if he is the director of the Foundation.

Isn't it just that WP Engine made their own Stripe plugin for Woo? Why is this being called out as wrong?

This says they've prepared a solution. Does anyone know what the solution is? Did WP Engine build a whole fork of the plugin and theme repositories?

No.

No, it doesn't block those.

> "Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes."

Cadbury is listed here by the organization that discovered the issue:

https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcem...

And here is the Hacker News post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34033799

Equality will always be prevented as long as we're allowed to exercise free will. A wise man said, "Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, ...and such differences create differences in economic outcomes."

Besides, the 2nd sentence of the Abstract shows they begin by labelling the perceptions of others as inaccurate. This corrupts the rest for me:

>Only when equality is increased within their ingroup, instead of between groups, do advantaged group members accurately perceive it as unharmful.

I second this. Foods affect your depression levels. Foods high in Omega 3 fight depression. Eat those foods regularly, you should notice the change in your mood.

Same here. Half way through the "FAQ" video I realized this might be a joke.