“WP Engine needs a trademark license to continue their business.”
Mullenweg’s numbers: WP Engine does about half a billion in revenue on WordPress and gives back 40 hours a week. Automattic gives 3,915. The post dresses itself up as a warning about disabled revisions, but the demand sits in the first paragraph: buy a trademark license. The man who controls wordpress.org is using the project’s official news blog to call a competitor “a cancer” and tell its customers to leave.