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Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action
Lawsuit: WordPress trademark fight put website owners in an “impossible situation.”…
This promise propelled WordPress' popularity to, by its own estimates, "encompass more than 40 percent of all websites in the world," his complaint said. But in the past few years, WPE's business has substantially grown, Keller explained, attracting big customers like Yelp, Thomson Reuters, and Dropbox, which otherwise may have paid WordPress for similar services. "Even if Defendants’ trademark case had merit (it likely does not), it does not excuse Defendants’ deliberate and vindictive targeting of Plaintiff and Class’s contracts with WPE," Keller's complaint said, calling Automattic's reneging on its promise to always provide free access "an appalling deception."
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