Comment by nchmy

As you know, this discussion has nothing to do with the WordPress trademark (which, among plenty of other things, you lied about for many years)

It has to do with you calling WP Engine a "hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress" for turning off post revisions, which are an extremely minor part of WordPress (and could be turned back on upon request).

All while - rather than "reserv[ing] custom code at the higher-priced plans" (which is yet another baffling lie) - for the first 12+ years, custom code and plugins (the core of Wordpress and open-source) were completely unavailable[0]. And then for another 8 years it was only available on $25+ plans.

So, I reiterate: WP dot com is/was the most hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WP anywhere.

But, apparently by your logic, when you cheat the IRS via self-dealing and lie to the entire WordPress community about relinquishing control over WP, only to secretly take it back in the same day, that gives you the right to sell RC Cola as Coca Cola - causing endless confusion to newcomers about what Wordpress really is. It was "WordPress with an asterisk" [1] as you yourself recently put it - except there was never any asterisk anywhere, and especially so til 2017.

You're really not good at this Matt. You should get off the internet.

p.s. Lest you claim, like you have so many times when faced with criticism, that I am a paid shill for WP Engine: No one should use either of your services.

[0]: https://wordpress.com/blog/2017/08/07/wordpress-com-business...

[1]: https://ma.tt/2025/08/simplification