{"id":13368,"date":"2010-09-10T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T07:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2011-06-07T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T20:08:27","slug":"wordpress-trademark-moves-to-wordpress-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/10\/wordpress-trademark-moves-to-wordpress-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress trademark moves to WordPress Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are some serious news! \u00a0Matt Mullenweg announced<\/a> that his company Attomatic is giving away its core brand name – WordPress – to WordPress Foundation.<\/p>\n

Automattic has transferred the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to WordPress and related open source projects in perpetuity. This means that the most central piece of WordPress\u2019s identity, its name, is now fully independent from any company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is huge!<\/p>\n

This reminds me of those times when open source software started its way into the enterprise. \u00a0Most people weren’t taking it seriously. \u00a0A lot of people were laughing at it. \u00a0Yet, one by one, company by company, open source made progress. \u00a0These days, there are no doubts about the benefits of the open source software, both inside and outside of the enterprise. \u00a0It brings plenty of benefits to the table. \u00a0But yet there are companies that are built around closed source software which are doing fine.<\/p>\n

Similarly to the above trademark news. \u00a0We had a few examples of a company giving the source and trademark to open source community and some sort of foundation. \u00a0But that was usually a desperate move, a panic attack. \u00a0 Often, such a move would bring in new blood and save the application or the company.<\/p>\n

This time, with WordPress, it’s not a desperate move. \u00a0It is a well thought through and calculated decision. \u00a0It is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

WordPress is what it is mostly due to the huge and dynamic community of its users and developers. \u00a0It’s them who make the most of it, and it’s them who push WordPress forward. \u00a0It makes the most sense that they, as a community, via the non-profit WordPress Foundation, own the WordPress trademark.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

These are some serious news! \u00a0Matt Mullenweg announced that his company Attomatic is giving away its core brand name – WordPress – to WordPress Foundation. Automattic has transferred the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to WordPress and related open source projects in perpetuity. 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