There’s tons of drama going on over in WordPress land. Private equity Silverlake has bought up and is running WP Engine. They’re apparently not contributing back to the WordPress Foundation as much as the foundation people think is fair. That much seems fine, but Mullenweg also seems to be wanting to completely destroy WP Engine to the point where his company Automatic can buy them up for pennies on the dollar. Getting companies to contribute to the open source the use seems good, but weaponizing trademark to try and destroy another company in the ecosystem seems really questionable.
It’s interesting to think about because we don’t have a Nostr foundation or trademark. How would we handle if private equity came in to the Nostr ecosystem and didn’t contribute? We don’t have clear expectations of the role of companies in the Nostr space, nor do we have a central company or foundation the way Word Press does.
I think it’s worth thinking about the best way to set up Nostr to handle this going forward. Many people here know the saga around Craig Wright and the struggle to define who and what bitcoin is… That feels somewhat similar as well.
What do people think is the best way to handle this?
https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporate-takeover-of-wp-engine
Private Equity is already here.
If you have something to protect, you should've trademarked everything ages ago. I know some commies want to make everything unpatentable and untrademark-able but for long haul protocol R&D the originator has to get something back unless you believe grifting is ok.
Grifting is not OK, OKAY?
You are not entitled to take in unlimited quantity from people whose decades of original research was never compensated for.
Private Equity is already here.
Have you ever witnessed a Trademark case?
Not being a smartass asking this.
long haul protocol R&D : repeated through history
Grifting is not OK, OKAY? ( Equality & fairness will come but it’s going to continue to get worse before better )
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LMFAO 😂 At this point
Who is YOU?
You are not entitled to take in unlimited quantity from people whose decades of original research was never compensated for.
