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A new lawsuit alleges Automattic must keep WordPress free.
Filed over the weekend by a WP Engine customer, the proposed class action lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop Automattic’s “meddling” with WordPress, writes ArsTechnica. From the outlet:
[WP Engine customer Ryan Keller] is hoping a jury will agree that Automattic and Mullenweg had a duty to keep WordPress “free for everyone” but instead intentionally interfered with WPE’s contracts and prospective business, as well as violated California’s unfair competition law, to extort money out of WPE.
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